> On 25 Feb 2021, at 19:39, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/FDAF2194-A49C-4E6E-BE35-C29A35FFCB14%40ulb.ac.be.
