> The only person waving evidence around in this thread demonstrates that Texas has substantially lower electricity prices than the US average. Only if one ign

> The only person waving evidence around in this thread demonstrates that Texas has substantially lower electricity prices than the US average. Only if one ignores consequences (externalities). System failures leading to fatalities, casualties, losses incurred by other businesses, parents staying home with kids because schools closed, customers getting stiffed with emergency pricing, retail rush on generators and propane, etc. Your basic Freedom Markets™ scenario of using disaster (capitalism) to bulk transfer wealth from customers and tax payers to gate keeping elites. Lather, rinse, repeat. > ...just isn't that big a deal for arguing about regulation vs deregulation on either side of the fence. What about accountability? Consequences? Where in your thesis are victims able to be made whole? -- Markets have rules. That's what makes them markets. No rules, no markets. Then it's just an extortion racket, no matter how much lipstick you put on that pig.