I'm inclined to agree that the price of gasoline in the U.S. should be allowed to increase. The resources that go into keeping it artificially low has a more hidden price attached to it, much like what's produced in the meat and dairy industries.
If the price on such consumables as gasoline, meat, and dairy were allowed to be priced more accurately, it would lead to a fundamental shift in American consumer habits. I imagine most Americans have it much better than they really know. Any grumbling or panic over these record prices looks a bit ridiculous to us outsiders.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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