On 17-Jul-06, at 4:39 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Why does the free market not give us electric cars, or electric
ships, or electric planes, not even supersonic?
You are contradicting yourself. You just agreed in an earlier post
that once coercion is applied, it's no longer a free market. So exactly
which non-coercive free market are you referring to here?
Let's take it again, anyway, translating "free market" to mean
"variously
distorted mixed economies with some level of non-free market":
Why does the free market not give us electric cars, or electric
ships, or electric planes, not even supersonic?
Sure it will, just as it has given you everything you have today.
It will most likely not be when _you_ personally want it (unless you
do it, which you're totally free to in a free market), but rather when
demand for those goods and the supply of competing goods are
in the right balance to make it happen.
BTW, out of curiosity, which deployable electric car has been
produced by any state?
I see private companies working on electric vehicles at least since the
Sinclair C5 over 20 years ago.
Today there's the Segway HT, a range of hybrids (all made by private
companies), and even an electric car (http://www.revaindia.com/)
made by a tiny Indian company which wasn't even a car company
originally, but rather "a small scale enterprise manufacturing high
precision automotive components for a single customer".
So much for all that huge investment (that can supposedly be collected
only by coercively robbing cash from people) needed to research into
electric cars, or whatever.
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