Mixing Gasoline and Moonshine

The House approved by a 389-34 vote a plan to impose criminal penalties and fines of up to $150 million for refiners and wholesalers for "gouging," with a fine of $2 million for retailers.

It is pitiable that 389 House members were so eager to make a public spectacle of their economic illiteracy. It is revealing that they exempted congressional moonshine — otherwise known as ethanol.

Alan Reynolds