Price Control?

The Washington Times has a good article, How gas price controls sparked '70s shortages, for those that remember the times...

...although the best response would have been to let prices rise, giving oil companies an incentive to produce more and consumers an incentive to conserve, "this basic level of economics is seldom understood by the public, which often demands 'political' solutions that turn out to make matters worse.

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