sci.energy.hydrogen

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:57:53 +0000 (UTC),
EskWIRED@ wrote:

(snips)

>> It should be noted that only the marketplace can so
>> efficiently allocate scarce resources. Politics never can.
>> As seen earlier in this thread, when politics does interfere
>> with the marketplace, the result is inevitably that the
>> resource usage is distorted, and seldom in a Good Way.
>
>Yes, but we need some kind of overall supervision to prevent adverse
>externalities, like pollution.

Those are always used as excuses to interfere in the
marketplace and make the results (most efficient use of
resources) worse. If "they" could stifle themselves enough
to keep their interference to the bare minimum necessary, I
wouldn't mind so much. They never do. Politics comes into
the equation. The lobbyists and special interests gin up
reasonable sounding excuses; they bribe the politicians; and
the marketplace be damned.

--
Robert Sturgeon
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
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