Figure of speach obviously, but the main message of putting unneccesary artificual controls in place leads to a great number of issues in a capitalist society. I am with Fotze, the amount of money that it takes to refine oil to produce gasoline is actually pretty high. Don't get me wrong, oil companies are making a pretty penny, but at the same time you have to remember with the good times come the bad, and there have been many years where the companies have lost money hand of fist due to the low cost of oil.
But ideas such as the NEP seem to seriously bugger up the economy, and can do some pretty major harm in the grand scheme of things. If anything the government could reduce taxes on the taxes which they are charging.
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