Poor in the South, may have to choose between heating and eating.

[opebo]

Quite glad, this might mean that there will be less Southerners.

What a great Christmas present!

Alas, the ones who will expire due to poverty will not generally be the Bush voters.  And the northern parts of the country will probably have more poor freeze to death than the South, in any given year.

[opebo]

But now that you bring it up, the Constitution clearly does not authorize the federal government to regulate natural gas prices.

Oh yes it does, by authorizing Congress to protect the general welfare.

Not to mention that the authority to regulate interstate commerce gives the Federal Government full authority to set natural gas prices.

Not that I think it should.  Better to let the prices fall where they may, and tax away the profits (as well as all high incomes) to pay for subsidies to the poor.

[opebo]

So you claim that the 14th amendment gives corporate personage to corporations?

The Fourteenth Amendment does not "give" anything to anyone.

Just because the state is dealing with a corporation, it does not follow that there are no constitutional limits on its power. Can a state censor the New York Times, because it is published by a corporation? Can a state take away a corporation's property without just compensation? Can a state deny a corporation due process of law.

The State should treat the corporation as what it is - a creature of the State.  Regulation of corporations should be an administrative matter, like the operation of the bureaucracy.  There is no need for the courts to be involved, as they are intended for the use of actual persons.