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To: RMF who wrote (13824)	8/20/2006 2:58:10 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

I don't know if taxes are the solution. They'll just pass that cost along to us. Every time we have a gas tax increase you see that immediately on the pump. What makes for lower prices is more competition. I think that the courts have been granting too many mergers. On paper we have 4 or 5 big oil companies, but in essence we have one huge conglomerate. These guys have tremendous market influence and price control. All the little oil companies have been wadded up in to larger ones. When you come to the wall where it looks like the next merger will be turned down on anti trust or anti competition concerns you pretty much know that you have a monopoly. You can't call it a monopoly...because its more than one entity. But these guys all know each other. They cocktail together. They trade with each other. It's a family. I guess it's a polyopoly. LOL Perhaps government's role is in creating more competition. Creating more opportunity for alternative energy. And the number one thing that the government could do is provide incentives for conserving energy and energy conserving technology. Lots can be done. Taxes? Perhaps if that money is earmarked to help us get off of this addiction to oil.