Monday, January 02, 2012

George Will: Ringing in a conservative year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ringing-in-a-conservative-year/2011/12/30/gIQAGWZNRP_story.html

In 2011, for the first time in 62 years, America was a net exporter of petroleum products. For the indefinite future, a specter is haunting progressivism, the specter of abundance. Because progressivism exists to justify a few people bossing around most people and because progressives believe that only government’s energy should flow unimpeded, they crave energy scarcities as an excuse for rationing — by them — that produces ever-more-minute government supervision of Americans’ behavior.

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