Doctors note that an extra 20 calories a day (one peanut M&M or a tortilla chip) over a year means
two pounds gained.
Remember the energy crisis? It didn't end, it's just that the global economy made it too expensive for third world countries to buy oil. As the global economy recovers it will return. Also the US has pressured the IEA into underestimating how fast the world is
running out of oil.
Democrats are threatening to stop the health care bill because
they don't want federal money funding abortions.
Or do you remember how early this Summer the government decided to delay vaccine production for the swine flu because they wanted to make sure it was going to become an epidemic first...