From the Department of “Correlation Does Not Equal Causation” I bring you this amazingly awesome infographic:
Rock (and U.S. Oil Production) Is Dead
I think we should just point at this one every time someone starts committing that fallacy. Or I guess we could just argue that the rockmeisters of old used gasoline powered guitars, and when US production started to fall off, that foreign stuff just didn’t have the oomfta.