### Comment:
We havent't used the gold standard for like 40 years though.

### REPLY:
There's a fundamental problem with using something finite and difficult to find to pay for something finite, relatively easy to find and gets burned to nothing.  The people selling the latter end up with all of the former, which then loses its value because of oil's 'inherent vice'.  Economists will tell you it's because they can't make gold appear out of think air (and their desire to do that is essentially unquenchable), but they neglect to consider what that gold would be buying.

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