Case-in-Point: One example of good policy/good politics is the right-turn on-red bill that was enacted by many state legislatures during the energy crisis of the late 1970s. Policymakers wanted to promote oil conservation and also deal with people’s natural impatience. So, laws were enacted that allowed one to pull up to a stop light, look both ways, and proceed to turn right if there was no traffic, thereby saving energy (good policy) and addressing people’s level of impatience (good politics). Legislators were never criticized for enacting this policy even though some deaths and injuries might have resulted from it. This was good policy and good politics.