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To: DMaA who wrote (35646)	3/19/2004 3:14:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

It is a false choice since the consumer is never consulted in the choosing. You're right that the consumer isn't consulted, but if regulation is a product of collaboration among the principals, some of whom are the states who supposedly represent you and me, that's better than command-and-control one-size-fits-all decreed by Washington. It's not a market solution in that they don't have all dozen or so formulations available at the pumps, but there is at least local governmental choice if not individual consumer choice. We have a representative democracy, after all, and this is regulation, after all, not corn flakes. If folks don't give half credit to regulators for consulting and delegating and collaborating, then the regulators will just go back to command and control. It's a whole lot easier for them to just decide for you what kind of gas you get to buy, just the way they produced shoes in the Soviet Union. If they're going to get bashed for trying, then why try. Just whip out the old iron hand.