The Real Addiction is to Power
9 May 2006
Editor, USA Today
Dear Editor:
Like George Bush, Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope asserts that Americans are "addicted" to oil ("Focus on cars, not gas type," May 9). I wonder why the political and intellectual elite insist on accusing us of being pathologically unable to exercise self-control. Does Mr. Pope and his ilk really not see the advantages that many people get from driving autos with lots of cargo space and horsepower? Or are Mr. Pope and Co. trying to convince us that we're so mindlessly irresponsible that we can be saved from ourselves only by turning even more control of our lives over to government?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, USA Today
Dear Editor:
Like George Bush, Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope asserts that Americans are "addicted" to oil ("Focus on cars, not gas type," May 9). I wonder why the political and intellectual elite insist on accusing us of being pathologically unable to exercise self-control. Does Mr. Pope and his ilk really not see the advantages that many people get from driving autos with lots of cargo space and horsepower? Or are Mr. Pope and Co. trying to convince us that we're so mindlessly irresponsible that we can be saved from ourselves only by turning even more control of our lives over to government?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday February 23, 2007 at 3:15pm