How about we remove most if not all government subsidies on gas production and let the consumer pay a more realistic price. Seriously, why does water cost more than gasoline?
We should make people pay the real price of meat, too, considering the environmental effects of meat production. But that's another issue.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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