At 17:23 5/23/2000, Brush, John wrote:
>it allows you to drive anywhere you want and use the car you choose. What if
>the gas companies forced you drive a certain type of car for no valid reason
>other than 'they can?'

I'm reminded of the early electric industry in this country.  Every power
company designed their own lamp socket so that you had to buy your lamps
from them.  Eventually everyone got tired of this hoohah and settled on the
original Edison medium base.  But when I was a largish child my mom's
cousin in NYC could still take her bulbs to Con Edison and swap them for
free, because according to some bizarre theory they were selling "light"
and not "power."

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