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Reply #30 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 2:16pm

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2008 at 10:18am:

I think it is usually better to let market forces choose the best technology than a bunch of bureaucrats. Nuclear would be the main exception.

Well, market forces chose coal and other fossil fuels: how smart is it to be (b)led by the blind, sorry, invisible hand of market forces?!?

(We are talking about humanities greatest concern!)

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Reply #31 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 2:28pm

Those market failures are easily correctable, which is what we are in the process of doing. It makes more sense to correct those market failures than adopt a communist style approach to energy technology. The failure was one of knowledge or science, not economics. Now that we recognise the externality, we can internalise it. You can't expect market forces to fix a problem before we know it exists.

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Reply #32 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 5:08pm

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2008 at 2:28pm:

Those market failures are easily correctable, which is what we are in the process of doing. It makes more sense to correct those market failures than adopt a communist style approach to energy technology. The failure was one of knowledge or science, not economics. Now that we recognise the externality, we can internalise it. You can't expect market forces to fix a problem before we know it exists.

Well, maybe I should go back and read the link a bit more and find out what the idea of this "Office of Technology Assesment" was all in aid of...I must admit I don't remember it when I read it the first time I just happened to see it when I got the link for some dude interested in Jim Riccio: some Greenpeace Nuclear Policy analyst.

Yes, it was serendipity (that's the word!)!

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Reply #33 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 5:13pm

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2008 at 2:28pm:

Those market failures are easily correctable, which is what we are in the process of doing. It makes more sense to correct those market failures than adopt a communist style approach to energy technology. The failure was one of knowledge or science, not economics. Now that we recognise the externality, we can internalise it. You can't expect market forces to fix a problem before we know it exists.

as for peak oil: we knew it was going to happen...plus

I heard on the radio the other day something about Germany; Italy; Autobahns; Freeways; the "f" word and signs/protests about white people not being allowed to have roads carrying massive amounts of cars through a blackmans backyard(i.e. poor/cheap neighbourhoods) leading to and fro from major(read all) cities...

Those market forces shouldn't be to blame for anything?!?

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Acid Monkey Gold Member Offline Goth Father Posts: 1064 EU Gender:	Re: Collective intelligence wanted... Reply #34 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 5:34pm BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jul 24^th, 2008 at 5:13pm: as for peak oil: we knew it was going to happen...plus The enlightened mind knew that it was going to happen. Then there are those who chose to remain blind; and then there were the lazy and the lemmings who believed and were led away by the blind.
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