🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <l70vmbINN2vk@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, billyg@lahonda (Bill Gogesch) writes:
>I'm afraid that lines at fuel pumps, when weighed against the enormous
>ecological damage caused directly by overconsumption and misapplication 
>of fossil fuels, looks like a pretty puny argument.
>
>Moreover, proper management need not lead to lines at the pump.  I do 
>believe that management is necessary.  I do not believe that, left to
>its own resources, the market and the public at large will 'do the right
>thing'. 

Can anyone offer any evidence that politicians and bureaucrats
will "do the right thing," especially if "the public at large"
won't?  Both public choice theory and history show that
politicians will try to allocate resources to further their own
interests.  If wise and benevolent beings were available to
allocate fossil fuels, that would solve the problem.
Unfortunately, the only choice is between having the consumers
do it (i.e. a free market) and having the politicians and
bureaucrats do it.
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Howard Gayle
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