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The Ludwig von Mises Institute  Advancing Austrian Economics,
Liberty, and Peace  Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the
tradition of the Austrian School  Search Mises.org  Why Not Feel
Sorry for Exxon?  Mises Daily: Monday, May 03, 2010 by  "So is
everyone feeling sorry for Exxon, as I do?"  [Liberty magazine,
July 1989]  To say that the oil spill has been blown up to
hysterical dimensions is a grave understatement. Hysteria
abounds everywhere, and everywhere the term "disaster" is freely
used. Even Pat Buchanan, who of all the media commentators I
thought would be most resistant to the wiles of
environmentalism, used that term. The Idiotic Overstatement
Award of the Year goes to Alaska Judge Kenneth Rohl, who opined
about the oil spill, "We have a manmade destruction that has not
been equaled, probably, since Hiroshima."  Hundreds of thousands
of innocent Japanese were massacred at Hiroshima; that's a
disaster. Over the last several month