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To: sm1th who wrote (175725)	1/12/2013 11:03:06 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206159

Government, in our modified capitalist system, is set up to referee the market--and that's what it will do here via export licenses. Would you tolerate govt "Export licenses" for your own labor? Suppose that you could make $100K in your state, but that there were jobs in another state 100 miles away that paid 3 times as much. Should you require an "Export license" from your governor to be allowed to sell your labor in another state? If you wouldn't accept it for yourself, why do you consider it fair for others? IMHO-this is not an apples to apples analogy. My labor (unless I am very uniquely qualified--the only scientist who knows how to make cold fusion work) is not a national resource. The over all use of the newly discovered NG Resources is/are a National resource that will effect our economy, other nation's economies, and has the chance to make a significant impact on our foreign policy. Hence, all of us, have stake in it's usage/deployment and get to weigh in thru our donations to lobbyists, votes, letter writing etc. to the government. And that is our system---like it or not.

To: sm1th who wrote (175725)	1/12/2013 1:29:20 PM
From: Dale Baker	2 Recommendations Respond to of 206159

Government controls everything and everyone that crosses national borders, period. They don't allow unlimited cheap labor into the US, they don't allow willy-nilly export of all kinds of weapon systems and advanced equipment and computers, etc. So if the duly elected democratic government decides that energy imports and exports should be regulated, it is fully within their power to do so. The legal situation from state to state within the US is different though still subject to regulation under the Constitution.