Thanks for input from a number of you on the magnet/toxins/windmill issue.
Seems like we need to get wind turbine price tag to include pollution
mitigation at bare minimum.
--
Peggy Miller, owner/OEO
Highland Winds
wix.com/peggymiller/highlandwinds
Shop is at 1520 S. 7th St. W. (Just west of Russ
It appears that your conclusion was made independent of the facts. Perhaps
your conclusion serves some unidentified agenda, could you explain who WE is
and how the PRICE TAG is adjusted to effect a specific end?
I ecall how the price of cigarettes in Canada was increased to reflect the
supposed in
:)
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote:
> It appears that your conclusion was made independent of the facts. Perhaps
> your conclusion serves some unidentified agenda, could you explain who WE is
> and how the PRICE TAG is adjusted to effect a specific end?
>
> I ecall how
Vlad,
Not sure why Peggy's comment deserved such a trolllish response.
I will join in her view that if we are to base our economy on competition,
then the practice of exporting externalities to the neighborhoods and
nations of the powerless has to stop. We have to work to find the true
Yes, and no.
Nick, you wrote, "if we are to base our economy on competition, then the
practice of exporting externalities ... has to stop" The fact is that if we
base our economy on competition, there is every incentive to export
externalities. We can, of course, make rules and regulations that a
This is a weird turn of phrase, to "export externalities". Where are
we exporting them from if they are already, well, external? Hmph.
Of course we import them as well, for example the flight you take today
is safer and cheaper because the complex of airplane manufacturers,
airports and r
I agree that "export externalities" is a strange phrase. I think the
intended meaning is to export costs to the environment to avoid paying for
them directly. The obvious example is pollution. The polluter doesn't pay
because he exports that cost to the world at large.
Markets and competition to m
Ah, but the polluter (the bosses, the bosses they're eating strawberries
and cream!) doesn't give a damn. It's only a "cost" to those folks in,
say, Bhopal, at least during the original time of export and perhaps not
even then until the balloon goes up. The polluter and her accountants
don't
That's exactly Nick's point. He says we should make it a cost to the
polluter.
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