Since rationing causes enormous misallocation of resources/fuel, the people who don’t really need the gas, will start selling it to those that do on the free market(usually called black market by the demagogues) They will be called speculators, profeteers, gougers etc. , just like people who were supplying badly needed generators in Louisiana, got prosecuted and jailed. In Iran, probably there will be executions until even then nothing works and the whole socialist subsidy and price control that got the whole thing started is done away with and the free market rules. Communist regimes wouldn’t last very long, if the West didn’t give them 100s of billions of dollars in loans and aid. Even North Korea gets millions of our taxes right now. We need to have an enemy, how else will the enormous millitary budget,taxes and debt get justified? We have to watch out for demagogues, we have plenty of them here. Hillary voted for the war in Iraq and all the anointed “front runner” republicans are of the same big government sort. The only real small government candidate is Ron Paul. If you don’t want the Un one world government to keep sending our troops to die in police actions and do away with our constitution, vote accordingly.

….’We the People’ established THIS country. And THAT in the face of all the hirelings King George could throw against US.

“as much as I like the slogan “Power to the people”, they don’t and won’t have it until the Mullahs power is broken.” — bman

And the people have the power to remove them….

….if they have the gonads.

And, US, as in “We the People”, can remove the Mullahs too. And then, who is the ‘key’?

Are we not back to ‘the People’?

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power-trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks, it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying; they just forgot to mention she was kind. (J. Ruth Gendler)]

“Yes, Ahmadinejad is getting ready for sanctions, but you can’t get ready for a punishment by punishing yourself, and driving away your sources of support.” — Meir Javedanfar

It could be sanctions, but the UN has hardly been inclined to do ANYTHING about Iran’s nuclear development program.

I give sanctions a very low probability. I think it’s going to be war. And this Summer.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- President John F. Kennedy]

Yes, Ahmadinejad is getting ready for sanctions, but you can’t get ready for a punishment by punishing yourself, and driving away your sources of support. Well you can, but by doing so, you would be helping your enemies. Ahmadinejad is driving away the Iranian people from his cause, and thats exactly what the West wants

“The Mullahs are the key, and according to several reports three big turbans have been offed recently.” — bman

The Mullahs are just the current regime exercising power.

And, just because some of them are being killed, there are still plenty more willing to climb another rung up the ‘food chain’.

The PEOPLE are the ‘key’.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. -- George Bernard Shaw]

“The reason is simple.

Ahmadinnerjacket needs the money for jihad. With oil prices way up, selling gasoline for 40¬¢ a gallon is not possible if the jihad is going to be funded.” — M.Simon

It’s easier to take hostages of German and/or French descent and hold them for millions. And less costly in destruction of infra-structure at home. Not to forget becoming unpopular with the ‘constituency’; if you can call them that in a dictatorship.

Regards,

Chcuk(le)
[Useless Invention: Flame-retardant gasoline.]