The EPA's "insistence on a 97-percent reduction is likely to lead to problems on a national level, including spot shortages, extreme volatility of prices, and consequent damage to the trucking and agricultural industries, " said Tom Robinson, president of the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America.

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As this report from the Northern Territory shows, even a temporary suspension will not only hit cattle farmers, but all the support industries, like trucking firms and, more curiously, helicopter mustering groups.

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And though, being an economist, he could not help muttering about the imperfection of societies and systems and the absurdity of predictions and though, being an inveterate puncturer of himself, he would demand a paternity test if anyone called him the father of the deregulated world his adventures with airlines led on to the freeing of the trucking, telecoms and power industries, and heralded the Thatcherite and Reaganite revolutions.

ECONOMIST: Alfred Kahn, deregulator, died on December 27th, aged 93

Instead the losers will be blue-collar polluting industries--such as traditional energy production, trucking or manufacturing--which have largely remained close to the GOP.

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