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Arguing over cosmetics

05/21/2007
US President George W. Bush doesn’t know how much gasoline Americans should use. US senators and congressional representatives have no supernatural insight that the president lacks on this subject and thus don’t know how much gasoline Americans should use, either. Yet Bush has advanced his plan for cutting US gasoline use by 20% in 10 years, and lawmakers are debating tactics rather than the merits of national consumption targets.To be sure, the president’s goal, announced in his state-of-the-union address in January, is vacuous. What makes 20% below some random baseline a reasonable objective?Unpredictable mixtureThe appropriate level of gasoline use 10 years from now w...
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