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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 17 May 2001 15:37:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > In environmental terms, what is
> > the cost of cheap oil?
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> SUVs! Hopefully, we are once again going to see evolution-in-action on them
> with high gas prices. :-)
Watch it. I don't want another dull evolution debate to start again.
After I typed by above text this morning, I found this interesting item by
Paul Krugman. It is a little dated now, but it is still very relavant to
this debate. Two key passages:
"...every economics textbook I know of has argued that the government should
intervene in the market to discourage activities that damage the environment."
"These days, however, the main problem comes from the right--from
conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free
market is always right--to such an extent that they refuse to believe even
the most overwhelming scientific evidence if it seems to suggest a
justification for government action."
The whole item can be read here:
http://slate.msn.com/Dismal/97-04-17/Dismal.asp
Scott A
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> Bruce
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| (...) quoted this passage instead. "True, economists generally believe that a system of free markets is a pretty efficient way to run an economy, as long as the prices are right--as long, in particular, as people pay the true social cost of their (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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