Jimmy Carter and oil prices

2004-06-14 Thread CyrilMorong
From Rethinking Carter by William L. Anderson [Posted October 25, 2000] Posted at http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=535id=68 by the Von Mises Institute First, he announced gradual decontrol of oil prices and the phasing out of the Keystone-Cops like government allocation

Re: Jimmy Carter and oil prices

2004-06-14 Thread Rodney F Weiher
The only bright spot in the whole dreadful 10-15 years of petroleum and gas price control era is that even the liberal pols no longer lunge for controls (price) in response to price spikes. Nixon didn't eliminate price control authority on petroleum when he administratively abolished the