But thanks to the magic of free enterprise, there is one fear we can alleviate: the idea that America is running out of toilet paper. In Florida—where else?—police arrested a man after a security guard for an Orlando Marriott found him with 66 rolls of the hotel’s toilet paper in his car. In North Carolina deputies trailed a stolen 18-wheeler to a warehouse where they learned it was being used to transport 18,000 pounds of toilet paper and other bathroom paper products. After all, it’s not the use of toilet paper that’s going up, and sooner or later people with a closet filled with a hundred rolls are going to realize they don’t need more. There is, he says, “no absolute shortage” of toilet paper.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 22, 2020 23:15 UTC