Re: Gollum will explode in a rage

BrianW wrote:
> On 16 Jul, 18:53, Doug <dougbol...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 2p? Yawn. To cover the real cost of motoring petrol would need to cost
>> 2.50 per litre. 2p more or less won't do anything to discourage
>> frivolous hypermobility or ameliorate the external costs imposed by
>> selfish motorists on the rest of society. So you are quite wrong. Even
>> if the government were to increase duty by 2p, I would still think
>> that petrol is scandalously cheap.
>
> That's interesting.  The market seems to think that the correct price
> for petrol in the UK is around 50 p per litre, the rest of the current
> price being excise duty and VAT.  You believe it should be five times
> that price.  I have some questions for you as to how that would be
> achieved in your anarchist paradise:
>
> 1. Who would get to decide what the price of petrol should be?
> 2. Who would get to collect and spend that money?
> 3. Who would enforce it?
>
> Now, I know you are not good on the specifics of your anarchist
> system, so may I suggest the following answers:
>
> 1. Gollum's mates
> 2. Gollum's mates
> 3. Gollum's mates

Ah, but, Gollum doesn't have any mates. So where do you go from there?

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