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**Jeffery** · 01-23-2007, 02:26 PM

It's good that you're OK with that. Can you imagine big oil board meetings where the CEO tells the board "well the good ol days are gone my friends, and it just wouldn't be right to make it up at the pump".

It's going to be paid for one way or the other. I don't think artificially making the price of fuel look lower then it is is a good idea in the long run since it suppresses the necessary economic motivations to move to other sources. Further if its paid at the pump some of the cost will be absorbed by the company's due to the elasticity of demand.

01-23-2007, 02:26 PM	#15
Jeffery Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	It's good that you're OK with that. Can you imagine big oil board meetings where the CEO tells the board "well the good ol days are gone my friends, and it just wouldn't be right to make it up at the pump". It's going to be paid for one way or the other. I don't think artificially making the price of fuel look lower then it is is a good idea in the long run since it suppresses the necessary economic motivations to move to other sources. Further if its paid at the pump some of the cost will be absorbed by the company's due to the elasticity of demand.
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