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Old 08-13-2014, 10:29 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by XYZ View Post
It seems there are two schools of thought present in this forum. There are those who want to see the price of fuel lowered, so they can benefit from paying less. Then there are those who want to see the price go higher so that everyone will be forced into consuming less. There is also the recent frank admission by the administration of this list that seeing lower gas prices is not beneficial to their enterprise.

It's seeing people being forced or coerced that is troubling. It smacks of schadenfreude - not to mention authoritarianism.
I would like to see the price of fuel go down because less is being used. As the past has shown low prices result in higher consumption.
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