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It is always the consume who pays, never the producers, any proruction expenses are factored in the commodity price. The revenue margins do not change all that
by sgregnt 7y ago
It is always the consume who pays, never the producers, any proruction expenses are factored in the commodity price. The revenue margins do not change all that much in a competitive industry.
- tolien 7y agoThat’s not necessarily a problem — coal power being more expensive to run by virtue of a tax on production means there’s an opportunity for renewable energy to undercut it without having to be subsidised directly as the “good” option (c.f. how fracking has reduced the price of gas to the point that running a coal plant is economic madness).