Quote #131
What you don't want to do is use the proximate crisis of these spiking gas prices to smuggle in a lot of bad policy. So we have the gas tax holiday was the first idea and that would have been a really bad policy. That has been knocked down. And then last week, it was off-shore drilling, which is also a terrible idea. One economist said to me that it was like digging for change in your couch when you're six months behind on the mortgage. The one thing you don't want to do in the face of a crisis, and that crisis is very real, is use it to sort of throw all sorts of bad policies at the wall. And that seems to be the road they've been going down.