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DeezerShoove » 12 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

12 minutes ago

• The U.S. tried it before. Federal oil and gasoline controls in the 1970s were followed by shortages and 
• long lines, and much of the system was later dismantled. Sky HISTORY TV Channel3

I'm callin ya a liar, I'm callin ya yella, and I'm callin ya out. 

12 noon. Tomorrow. Come heavy or stay home. 

The feds have never regulatef gasoline recipes for the 57 states. The states have alway had their own laws on that - and the refineries have bribed them to do so, much as big tobacco paid them to sue it. 

And another thing. "Followed by shortages and lines" is NOT a cause and effect argument. I saw a black cat and then twisted my ankle - make of THAT what you will. I make nothing of it - and nothing of your juxta-positioning of unrelated phenomena. The shortages were engineered - not regulated. And if they DID use regulations to engineer those shortages, that makes bribery bad - not regulations.

And let's not step over that YOU are making the pro-regulation argument, not I. Currently, there are FIFTY SEVEN SETS of regulations affecting the price of gas in the 57 states. And you are arguing for that, where I am arguing for ONE set of regulations.