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
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