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Nevada’s housing market has been mangled by multiple government interventions. Politicians simply refuse to leave the resulting distortions in prices and inventory alone to correct themselves, leading to another round of interventions, and on and on.

Envisioning cars that can go “coast to coast without using a drop of oil,” President Barack Obama last week urged Congress to authorize an additional $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into weaning automobiles off gasoline. “The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices — the only way to break that cycle for good — is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil,” the president said.

Nevada is almost 150 years old, and parts of its government structure are antiquated and in need of reform. The Legislature’s 120-day biennial sessions are not among them.