Setting prices via administrative fiat doesn't eliminate problems. If the price is set to low, there will be shortages or no product at all. If the price is s

Setting prices via administrative fiat doesn't eliminate problems. If the price is set to low, there will be shortages or no product at all. If the price is set to high, then the blame for the high price is shifted to the legislature rather than the supplier. In any case, it is the government that is creating the conditions that allow the price to be set so high in this case. Blaming the 'market' for adjusting to the conditions created by government is confusing cause and effect.