True Free Markets (2)

There is one commodity that looks like it's properly priced: petroleum!

Which points out the laughably disingenuous way that politics is conducted here, and probably everywhere.

Our national candidates are both smart enough to know that higher petroleum prices are much more like a solution than a problem. But neither of them believes the American electorate has enough intelligence to understand the point. And so neither will come out and admit it.

They could be right. An interesting guy who was a senator from Connecticut, Lowell Weicker, famously took a position in favor of higher gas prices. And later lost to... Joe Lieberman. An interesting guy who was President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, famously took positions in favor of conservation and nuclear power. And later lost to... Ronald Reagan.

Depressing.

I like to think, however, that there could be someone out there with the persuasive power to tell the truth to the electorate and get away with it.

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