How To Solve The Gas Panic

The real problem now is panic buying. People will run their tanks down by about one-third and then rush off to a gas station. Lines of cars are following gas tanker trucks around Atlanta. The supplies are coming back up, but as long as people insist on keeping every car they own filled to the top and then filling a few gas cans to boot, we're going to have these outages and these absurd lines.

So, how do you stop the panic buying? Easy. You let the market do what the market does best, control demand and supply through the price structure.

Neal explains the obvious. Obvious to you and I but not to our pols.