'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible. - Thomas Sowell

The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.