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I don't know anything about California's water problems, but I think ferrari is sure correct that any restrictions will prove difficult to lift even if it rains every day for a year. American politics often fall under the sway of a group of activists who believe that asceticism is morally elevated whether it's necessary or not. Hence the weird movement to encourage people to eat only stuff grown with 50 miles of their homes (growing up in New Mexico, I would never have tasted shrimp, orange juice or artichokes under this regime) or Bernie Sanders' outraged complaint that we can choose among “23 underarm spray deodorants,” as if that somehow creates poverty.

President Nixon, citing gasoline shortages triggered by the OPEC oil embargo, imposed a federal speed limit of 55 mph in November 1973. The embargo ended four months later, but the federal speed limit lasted another 20 years. That's a good example of what I'm talking about.

Thanks, Garvin, for commenting on something I actually said.

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I don't know anything about California's water problems, but I think ferrari is sure correct that any restrictions will prove difficult to lift even if it rains every day for a year. American politics often fall under the sway of a group of activists who believe that asceticism is morally elevated whether it's necessary or not. Hence the weird movement to encourage people to eat only stuff grown with 50 miles of their homes (growing up in New Mexico, I would never have tasted shrimp, orange juice or artichokes under this regime) or Bernie Sanders' outraged complaint that we can choose among “23 underarm spray deodorants,” as if that somehow creates poverty.

President Nixon, citing gasoline shortages triggered by the OPEC oil embargo, imposed a federal speed limit of 55 mph in November 1973. The embargo ended four months later, but the federal speed limit lasted another 20 years. That's a good example of what I'm talking about.

Thanks, Garvin, for commenting on something I actually said.