Absolutely. Unfortunately, few people understand this, and it's easy to appeal to emotion.
On Fox and Friends this morning, a reporter was breathlessly reporting $5.99/gal prices at a NJ gas station that "just shut down after it saw our truck!" "People are waiting in line, but they don't know that the station just closed!"
Yeah, because of you, dumbass!
The station owner could have used the extra income to pay for expedited gas deliveries. But now he can't, thanks to the stupid, college-educated, economically illiterate, reporter.
LOL... Yep. I saw that.
Let the price roll on up to ten or fifteen bucks and gas will start flowing into NJ from all over. Sure, it’ll be spendy but there will be gas.
Think gas is expensive? How much would you pay not to have to push your car a mile?
On his Thursday program, Rush Limbaugh cited a story coming from lower Manhattan. Despite a community with no power, a Chinese restaurant owner managed to use a generator to power up his kitchen and serve food, by candlelight, to local area residents. Guess who showed up? NYC Health Inspectors arrived, carrying flashlights, purportedly to ensure the food met with city guidelines.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Government is always there to block it.