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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (108817)	5/1/2000 7:39:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572145

Re: "OPEC". Organization of petroleum exporting COUNTRIES... OK Jim, they would have to change the name to make it exporting countries and producing companies. Now how much do you think a barrel of oil would be going for? :-) I expect I'm a lot closer to the daily operations of various government agencies than most on this thread, and they're probably worse than even you think. But that's because they have a monopoly on what they do so they can do a terrible job and there's no competition to displace them. If you let the oil companies, or a software company, or any other organization or group have a complete, unregulated, monopoly on just about anything, it will sooner or later become just as grossly inefficient as the government agencies that you are thinking about. I think we both wish this weren't the case, you think it isn't the case, but I'm pretty sure it is. We all have to reach our own conclusions. Regards, Dan