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Energy Independence II

by John Stossel

"John Stossel sounds like a real defeatist. ... We have our backs to the wall, and he's raising the white flag."

"Stossel has lost his mind."

My column last week mocking "energy independence" angered people. (http://tinyurl.com/6aauwu).

I argued that "independence," a favorite slogan of vote-hungry politicians, would require the government to interfere with the global division of labor, which, as economists have understood since Ada ...

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Posted by: T Maz
Comment: #1
Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:48 PM

Free markets, free minds, freedom, all go together. The free market is the best arbiter of goods and services. Keep the government out of the market and it will correct itself - as we have seen recently with oil prices and the real estate market.

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