> On 25 Feb 2021, at 19:39, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That’s because prohibition and free-market are inconsistent. Then, the >> abandon of rigour in the fundamental human science makes people accepting >> inconsistencies, which lead to human catastrophes. Even the “electric >> crisis” in Texas comes from the worst political isolationnisme possible, and >> a willingness to refuse a free-market for electricity. > > It came because they tried to make a free-market electric system. The > electricity producers had no incentive to provide reliability against weather > events happening ten or twenty years apart.
Only by limiting the system to the state, making the market not free, and unreliable. Free-market you buy it anywhere, at the lower price, even to foreigners. > To provide excess capability and backups and weatherize would just raise cost > and lose customers to the competition. In the Airline industries, that is mention as cutting corners. The type of economy which can make a plane to not de-ice properly and crash. Again, this comes from making the texans unable to buy electricity elsewhere. It is perverse free-marketing, obliged to cut the security to get the fund to make the system working. > Customers were free to buy electricity on a daily basis...which is why some > of them now have $16,000 bills for five days service. Which is simply insane. Normally we agree on the price, and then pay, and only if the product is well delivered and working. A free-market is not crime driven market, or when it does, it means we are confronted to criminals, like in the prohibition files. Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/FDAF2194-A49C-4E6E-BE35-C29A35FFCB14%40ulb.ac.be.
