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Or we could like, have the market decide? What you’re saying violates the law of one price and doesn’t make any sense.
by mruts 7y ago
Or we could like, have the market decide? What you’re saying violates the law of one price and doesn’t make any sense.
- danans 7y agoExcept that's already how natural gas and electricity are priced.
- mruts 7y agoAnd you think that’s related to a free market?
- danans 7y agoNo. You're starting with the assumption that the completely free market is the best way to achieve our societal objectives around energy production, distribution, and consumption. I disagree, saying that there are other better models than the completely free market, that still employ free market elements, including tiered and time of use pricing. But that's probably because we believe in different societal objectives on this subject.
- cortesoft 7y agoThe market doesn't care about fairness, though, and we do. We want everyone to be able to afford enough gas to get around, but if we price it cheaply enough to do that, large consumers are going to use too much and damage the environment. If we place larger taxes on the fuel to price in the externality of environmental damage, we price poorer people out of the market for gas.