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If you want to interfere with a market that isn't the way to do it.
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We are then in utter disagreement.
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In particular oil. We can't set a price. We can give a price, and they can say no, we'll just lower production for a while if you don't want to buy it. Or maybe sell to China.
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Of course we can. It's called pricing.
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Now we're a big enough buyer to affect prices somewhat, but we're already trying to do that.
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We live in desperate times. Food and oil riots are occurring across the world. Americans are suffering, too. Waiting for OPEC to stop being greedy and driving up oil prices for no reason at all will take too long and too much stolen money.
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Now food we mostly produce domestically. So you could set prices they can sell at here and abroad so their choices are just quit or sell at the given price. But if the price is lower than what people are willing to pay either you get.
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It would be suicide for businesses to stop being in business. They would no longer make money.
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1. Some varient on the scalper
2. Rapid scale back of production
3. rampant shortages
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We make enough food to justify lower prices. We also have enough oil to justify lower prices.
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Now there are some product where this might not be the case. But food isn't one of them.
If you want to alleviate the problem either
Offer subsidies to the companies you want to support, give more money to the buyers, or have the government pay some of the difference(or pull taxes as McCain proposes for gas).
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Subsidies are meant to help businesses about to collapse economically. Why give oil companies MORE money? They're already bending us over.
Giving money to buyers doesn't solve the fact prices will keep soaring.