Drill Here! Drill Now!
By Henry Lamb
June 30, 2008
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A free market is the best possible motivator of innovation and controller of price. The pursuit of profit is the pursuit of happiness. The freedom to choose the best product at the best price is the best possible way to keep a variety of products available at the lowest prices possible.
Should Maxine Waters get her way, and impose the power of her brilliant brain over the wisdom of a free market, the nation is doomed. In fact, the collective brain power of Congressional Democrats and Republicans can't hold a candle to the wisdom of a free market.
The free market can make mistakes. Remember the Edsel? Remember the Corvair? Remember the Pinto? The free market is self-correcting. The Edsel, the Corvair, and the Pinto are gone. Government-managed markets do not correct their mistakes, government compounds the mistakes. It was a mistake to prevent the energy market from keeping up with demand. Instead of correcting the mistake, government, in its infinite wisdom, demanded the production of massive quantities of ethanol -- which drove food prices skyward, and out of reach for much of the world. Government must be forced to get out of the way.
More than a million people have signed the "Drill Here; Drill Now" petition. A new campaign is now underway to send to every Congressman a drill bit and a map of the United States that says "Drill Here! Drill Now!"
The hope is that people will send a drill bit and a map to their Senators and Representative to lodge a not-so-subtle message that domestic oil reserves need to be developed. Whatever method is used, it is up to the people to force their elected representatives to get out of the way and let the market work to solve the energy crisis.
Drill Here! Drill Now!
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Henry Lamb is the Chairman of Sovereignty International , and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO).
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