In the name of “clean energy,” Washington is subsidizing a switch from gasoline-powered cars to cars powered mostly by coal. In pursuit of “energy independence,” the feds may foster addiction to a fuel concentrated in a socialist-run South American country.
Trantor - "The population ... was well in excess
- of 40 billions. This enormous population was devoted almost entirely to the administrative necessities of Empire, and found themselves all too few for the complications of the task."
Teach your children well
- F.A. Hayek: The Road to Serfdom
- Jonah Goldberg: Liberal Fascism
- Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man
- Virginia Postrel: The Future and its Enemies
- Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It
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