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Thread #34710   Message #474530
Posted By: UB Ed
01-Jun-01 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gas Prices II
Subject: RE: BS: Gas Prices II
Sounds like Bart favors tight government regulation of infrastructure industries.

I disagree that our energy choices are limited by big producers. (Please understand I generally wish to believe I have some level of control over my choices). As an individual, I can avail myself of any energy option I wish, as long as I'm willing to pay the price. If people wished to pay for solar technologies, big energy industries would provide it. The point is, we don't want to pay. So, our energy choices are ultimately our own.

Hiding the price to produce from the customer in a subsidy is just wrong, regardless of regulation or free market.