Obama’s Energy Policy Comes Home To Roost

March 16, 2012March 15, 2012

From HyScience comes this photo the White House would rather you not see:

Taken at a gas station within walking distance of the White House (hat tip –Mark Hemingway):

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For society as a whole, nothing comes as a ‘right’ to which we are ‘entitled’. Even bare subsistence has to be produced…. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it… The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more the providers have to carry the load.
Thomas Sowell
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John Kenneth Galbraith
The investor should be aware of the damages caused by fiat money — for instance, boom and bust. At the same time, he should not run for the exit prematurely: The fiat money system might be held up for longer than some may fear and others might hope, so that keeping inflation-resistant assets may be more rewarding than betting on an imminent system crash.
Thorsten Polleit
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Lord Acton
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P.J. O'Rourke
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Ludwig von Mises

Theory and History
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Ambrose Bierce
Let me say it yet again: The rights of the people come from God. The powers of government come from the people. The American people delegated the specific powers they wanted the federal government to have through the Constitution. And any additional powers they wanted to grant were supposed to be added by amendment.
Joseph Sobran