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To: bill1952
Oh PLEASE! Regulations drive producers into bankruptcy because the same product is made elsewhere for less.

Do you act the screaming idiot just so that people won't bother replying and you can feel like you "won"?

Sheesh.

You still don't understand the substitution effect.

You can’t import electricity from China and your cite of the indifference curve betrays a lack of acumen concerning a commodity that consumers cannot do without, although they can curtail.

Sure you can. It would just cost a lot. In some cases it's worth it, seeing as we import electricity from China right now stored in batteries.

Users on the grid will pay all or more than they can bear until they sit in the dark.

You forgot "use less," thus illustrating your basic lack of comprehension of a simple demand curve. Then there is "use something else." A classic example in the electrical market is when people substitute natural gas to heat their domestic hot water when electrical prices rise and heating water with electricity is too expensive (a good example of the substitution effect, BTW). The point of indifference is that price beyond which they will make the change.

Seeing as I've written a book on the topic of regulatory corruption and what to do about it, there may not be another FREeper who knows more about the corrupt economics of regulatory government.

If you want a better understanding of regulatory racketeering in the electrical market, I suggest you read this. Maybe you'll even figure out who wrote it.

80 posted on 05/30/2011 6:05:43 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: Carry_Okie
You still don't understand the substitution effect.

At least not as well as the Obama administration understands it. The net effect of these regulations is to make it more economically favorable (or less unfavorable) to use alternative energy. Since AE can't compete with generated electricity on a level playing field,the administration is trying to make generated electricity (just like oil) more expensive.

89 posted on 06/01/2011 11:28:50 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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