[Default] On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 18:38:11 +0700,[email protected] wrote: >Dear all, > >It is an irony that biomass cook stoves, that are intended for people in >so-called third countries and low level income families, are indeed sold >at extremely high price. Lets look at www.alibaba.com or any website >selling biomass stove, the stove prices are mostly higher than US$ 30,- > >Anybody can explain?
I can't explain except to say the free market doesn't really exist and nothing takes account of all the externalities as we humans expand into all the available niches. Economic systems are just the way humans co-operate and compete in making use of all the available resources the planet allows. If the market price is too high the commerce fails, if there is a need then the voluntary sector can contribute, else the poor people as ever do without. We get quite a lot of posts to the list from non members and normally they get discarded but I got the link below from one, not a lot new and self promoting but I thought some here may be interested. http://www.differgroup.com/analysis/ AJH _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
