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So lurkette, you come from the "ends" camp. I'm all about the "means" as it seems most people here are. As to your threadjack, I think the subsidizing of oil is incredibly stupid. You have to realise though, that the government action affecting transportation was put in place to allow people to continue their preferred course of action in that area, hence no one (aside from some environmentalists and so forth) complained. The action that would increase the cost of "fatty food" (how they would define parameters for this would be interesting) would be limiting the preferred course of action of many people, and therefore gives more reason to complain.
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