On 23 Jul 2021 at 11:47, paul dove via EV wrote: > Many people believe oil is a couple of.
I guess there's a word or two missing there, because I have no idea what that sentence is supposed to mean. > with 100's of companies drilling, storing, transporting, refining etc. > certain segments aren't profitable. Aw, poor babies. Their poverty wrenches at my heart. I'll just carve this toothpick into a sad little violin for them. The big money fat cats are always talking about the purity and perfection of free markets. Well, let's go for it. Let's free up the oil market. Phase out the tax-financed petro-welfare, and let the famously dispassionate invisible hand of the free market settle the profitability problem. Put those 600 billion public tax dollars toward something with actual public benefit - oh, I dunno, how about universal public health insurance, to cover the public health costs of pollution and climate change? Ha, ha, just kidding! As the poor suffering unprofitable refiners and other parts of the greasy supply chain lose their handouts and fail, the huge monopolists will absorb them. The "excessive competition" problem will just fade away. Of course the price of fuel will rise to pay the actual unsubsidized supply costs, plus a nice fat profit for the monopolists and their stockholders. As it rises, eventually even Joe Tonka with his 3-ton big-boy-toy truck will start to see the EV light - maybe even the PV light too. Ha, ha, just kidding! David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Take the longest nap possible. Do not nap underneath trucks. -- US Army Field Manual FM 7-22 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
