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Originally Posted by pan6467
If the electric companies have to go before a state commission show their need for a rate increase and be able to reach a compromise and set a fair price for it's services.... why can we not have the oil companies do the same?
Fuel is unfortunately the main cog in our economy. If it sky rockets inflation skyrockets and our economy is severely hurt.
So my proposal is let's have state commissions that look at what the oil companies want to charge, what they need to charge and set a happy medium that cannot change for 3 months, then the prices get reviewed and set for another 3 months and so on.
Can this work?
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Sure, it's a great idea. Now let's see if we can find two elected officials to rub together who haven't been bought off by the oil companies.
The oil companies write their own ticket at this point. They are more or less above the law, and will continue to be so until either oil is completely displaced by some cheap, clean alternative energy, or until all the oil is gone.
The corruption of government by the energy concerns is one of the most pervasive of the corruptive influences. Maybe the single most pervasive, aside from that of the military-industrial complex.
I would love to be proven wrong, but I am pretty sure they would never allow an idea like this to come about.