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> fuel is cheap, electricity is cheap, food is cheap. And you're saying the industries with government intervention are the expensive ones? What's going on wit
by 8note 4y ago
> fuel is cheap, electricity is cheap, food is cheap.
And you're saying the industries with government intervention are the expensive ones? What's going on with fuel, electricity, and food; all of which have heavy government interference
- etchalon 4y agoIt's almost like it's more complicated than just "regulation".
- repsilat 4y agoThe government does interfere with them, but to a much smaller extent than in other countries. Europe is famously protective of its food producers, Germany shut its nuclear power stations down. France's nuclear generation is a shining rare example of good use of state capacity, a kind of counterexample the shock of which demonstrates the truth of the generalization. There isn't a huge amount of government involvement in fuel in the US. Some bad ethanol requirements, some taxes, but still less bad than elsewhere. And fracking is legal where it matters, thank God.