Jim Wildman wrote:
> I find the CA power situation instructive as to the working of
> free markets. Allow the price to go up, demand goes down and supply
> goes up...viola. Product flows to the most profitable use.
And my point is that bad, environmentally ignorant regulation on
California's part put the power industry in its current position
years ago! You're only talking about the effects of that policy.
Right now, it is prohibitively expensive to generate power in
California because of the age old power plants and their lack of
capacity. So who pays for this government screw up? The power
company or the consumer?
>From an economic viewpoint, this is called "facism" -- government
controlled private industry. Health care has the same problem --
you are basically forced to get your insurance from your employer,
who is heavily regulated by government. Let's either go
"capitalism" or "socialism" and be productive one way or another.
Right now, we are causing our own problems with this facism
economy/government we have.
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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