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Comment by thrance

2 hours ago

Gasoline is heavily regulated and subsidized. Leaving the oil market alone resulted in Standard Oil, and we obviously don't want that again.

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Straw  35 minutes ago

Standard oil not only reduced consumer prices for gasoline, but was already losing its monopoly to competitors during the antitrust trial.

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