Ok, this thread's dead.
Now we've got bitching about liberals, not that there's anything wrong with that, I do it all the time. It's just better done on a site that's, you know, devoted to politics. Can a comparison of George Lucas to H_tl_r or St_l_n or P_l P_t be far behind?
Not that there's anything wrong with that either. Phantom Menace speaks for itself. And plenty of gamers have compared Sony to the Empire.
By the way, comparing anything to the price of gasoline is a losing analogy. Might as well use airline tickets as an example. Gasoline is most definitely not a free market.