Well actually thats flawed for about three reasons.
The oil company's charging whatever they want is not the problem. As I mentioned above, its people unwillingness to change. I ride a bike or take public transit most everywhere. I'm not so sure most people are willing to do that because they want their heat or their AC, they want their radio and they don't want to have to plan. They want to leave when they want and change coarse at any point.
Simply put, if you don't like something about oil, stop buying it. People don't want to use capitalism to do the work they want to have the government fix the problem for them. Theres nothing wrong with capitalism in this regard.
As for politicians and lobbiests and all that, this is the same syndrome in a different manner. Instead of using your money to change things, you have to use your vote. With half the country not voting it should be easy to eliminate politicians that aren't doing the right thing. Money persuades those who aren't paying attention and will likely not vote in local or statewide elections.
To those who are paying attention without being coerced, one should be able to bring up a bad voting record or terrible policy making to influence their decisions. If you don't vote correctly or at all, you have only yourself to blame.
As for the capitalism the Republicans practice you've got two things wrong. Theres nothing "hands off" about how they practice it. First off all, their tax break policy toward big oil so they don't have to drill as much has led to massive and misproportioned profit margins for exxonmobil. Hardly hands off.
Secondly, in order to secure a more perfect capitalistic environment, the republicans actually championed anti-monopoly laws because as anyone whose ever been to the DMV knows, when you have no competition, thats when things get really ugly.
People are lazy and to prove my point, I'd like to use this video to enhance my position...watch the whole thing.
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