[AZLiberty]

The bottleneck in our economy is not labor or materials, but initiative and the freedom required to exercise it. Because of exponential technologies -- including fracking -- we live in a world of potential abundance, but we are constrained by policy and other forms of narrow thinking.

If these hurricanes provide excuses to expand freedom of action, we will all be better off in the long run.

[Alberta's Child]

Because of exponential technologies -- including fracking -- we live in a world of potential abundance, but we are constrained by policy and other forms of narrow thinking.

That's a very interesting point. I'd also suggest that we are constrained by the limits of our consumption. In effect, our capacity to produce things far outweighs our ability to consume them. This is why our economy has devolved into a fascist (in the original sense) crony-capitalist system where companies and entire industries can only exist by getting people and businesses to become their customers under threat of government force. Isn't that what ObamaCare is all about, for example?