[ExI] EP and Peak oil

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:11 PM 3/31/2008 -0700, Lee wrote:
>[PJ:]
> > BTW, Lee, in my research on government/corporate collusion, this
> > behavior is the rule, not the exception.  So much for free markets.
>
>"So much for free markets"?  Perhaps you can point out a few cases
>from history where some other system worked better to "distribute
>scarce resources which have alternate uses".  [...]
>So, PJ, given a free hand, just how would or should a replacement
>for the market be devised?

This looks to me like another ideological kneejerk. PJ's point (I 
believe) is that what people seem to refer to as the US free market 
is generally--I might prefer "frequently" and "importantly" NOT A 
FREE MARKET but (read her lips) "government/corporate collusion."

Damien Broderick