by Pops » Mon 25 Jul 2011, 11:42:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilFinder2', 'Y')ou didn't answer the question, so I repeat: Would you buy the same amount of something if the price had quadrupled, or even quintupled?
If your your lifestyle required you to continue purchasing it and you made no change, then of course you would continue - you'd simply not purchase something else (see the economic recovery thread)
OTOH, if you had not been able to buy
any oil previously because of poverty, and then you became less poor, the price wouldn't appear to you to have increased at all, would it?

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)