Gasoline as a Utility?

       I am just going to jump right into this.  Pros first.  1.  Gasoline companies are clearly in collusion and fix prices, creating massive windfall profits, year upon year.  (This is obviously just my opinion.  I have no proof, but the profits and price adjustments are factual regardless.)  2.  We all require gasoline to get to work, school, and stores.  This is also true for those of you on public transportation.  Why do you think that costs so much?  3.  We already have natural gas as a regulated utility.  Natural gas and petroleum come from the same wells, and go to the same people, eventually.  4.  Other countries are buying gasoline before it is even pumped out of the ground, in massive quantities, to insure a low price for their people.  This is yet another example of the failure of the U.S. government to look out for the interests of its people.  5.  This should have been addressed long before health care.  Well or sick, we all have to get to work.  Sad is someone who can't afford healthcare.  Tragic is that same person unable to afford transportation to get to work, to enable them to feed their family, and pay for healthcare.

       Now for the cons.  1.  Our utilities are also a sick joke.  We are the ones it is being played on, and the punchline is prices being raised anyway.  2.  Who will regulate this new utility?  the same money-grubbing, ass-chasing, alcoholics who currently could only agree to shove of the debt ceiling problem until after the next election?  (They at least had the common courtesy to pretend they were holding out for principles.  One of them must have gotten their hands on a dictionary first though; to see what the word meant.)  3.  The payment structure would need to be worked out.  4.  Gas stations could no longer sell cigarettes and other sundries.  (Like Com-ed, and Nicor don't sell you things like appliance insurance and...  oh wait.)  Although that would be more of a pro, since then we would need more convenience stores, and fast food places.  It would create jobs, opportunity, and growth.  Hell that alone should be enough to carry this argument. 

If there are any members of congress who see this I apologize.  To call all of you "money-grubbing, ass-chasing, alcoholics", is a broad generalization, and it is quite unfair.  After all, some of you are women.