Communities of graying gamers have sprouted up world-wide as generations reared on Pong and Pac-Man have become addicted to the latest iterations of Halo and Call of Duty, but are no longer as fast with their trigger fingers.
There is no hard-and-fast decision rule or trigger mechanism to which he or she must adhere in deciding whether supply conditions in the oil market justify an intervention.
Rather, when trigger-happy lawmakers insert themselves into fast-moving technology markets, the law that gets invoked more often than not is the law of unintended consequences.