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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (25640)2/4/2008 3:00:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
They don't just take away the profitability of the refining sector, they also inflate demand for gasoline with subsidies. Recently they have tried to counter that inflated demand with rationing, but explicit government directed rationing is almost always a worse way to allocate scarce goods and services than "rationing by price" (or in another words a relatively free market in the good).