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To: TimF who wrote (225973)3/23/2005 4:08:14 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574258
 
"Your opinion that the oil refining industry would be able to push through large tariffs on imported gasoline was also hypothetical."

True. But it has the salient quality of taking into account how the industry operates, yours makes the unfounded assumption that market forces is all that exists. In big oil, that hasn't been true since Standard Oil was formed.