Are consumers being harmed due to the high-fuel prices, airlines or misleading advertising when fuel surcharges are tacked on? Should the government investigate airlines or .Com travel sites who sell tickets online over possible price gouging? Does it makes sense to make more laws or regulations for the travel industry or airlines over this issue? You see when you ask about Airlines and advertised prices and we look at possible intervention for false advertising, misleading or deceptive marketing, I would say this might be a really "warm and fuzzy" for the consumer to keep the peanut gallery thinking the government really gives a flying F and make for some distractive headlines in the mass media hysteria, but it can solve little else in the over all situation. We have some "Real" energy issues in all industries and not just in the Airline Sector and "The Ayn Rand affect" is making it worse as folks complain and call foul against free market participants and about oil companies, rather than considering the commodity traders and manipulators or the over regulation which has curtailed supply infrastructure unnecessarily in the name of the environment you see. People are so caught up in the game they cannot for the life of them figure out why the game exists in the first place. Perhaps we need to better educate consumers, regulators and politicians on how free markets work and who built every thing you see in our civilization everywhere you go? Consider this in 2006. |
