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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (752)	3/19/1999 8:43:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (752)	3/19/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

<< Thats right...double the rates and halve the supply...thats me! Now, you will see innovation! >> And of course, such brilliant armchair economizing inevitable forgets who are the benefiaries of the market. In your attempt to save the "environment" you screw the consumer. But of course, in typical socialist fashion, you will reply, "well, they shouldnt be so darn selfish!" To put it in more formal language ala Kant, you're using the consumer as a mere means to your ends. As all misguided utopians do, knowing so much more about what people really want...