[ExI] EP and Peak oil
Damien Broderick
thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Mar 31 22:31:20 UTC 2008
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
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