Social engineering through taxes is how England lost some colonies a few
years ago. Those people haven't changed much since.
AG
On Friday, January 3, 2014, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Consumer choice is good and will lead to the socially desirable outcomes
> only if consumers face the correct prices. Since energy prices (both
> electricity and gasoline) in the US are far below the social cost,
> regulations such as these or the car fuel efficiency standards are
> inevitable. It would be far better to raise energy taxes significantly and
> let consumers choose, I agree. But there is little political appetite for
> that, and so I support the second-best solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> On 4 Jan 2014, at 03:50, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Maybe you should check the conservative's viewpoint... and it has
> > nothing to do with being green or saving energy. :-)
> > <http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2541430?slideout=1>
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > On 1/3/2014 11:56 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> >> Somehow we have had such a ban in several European countries for quite
> some time (I think it is coming in EU-wide this year) and the world has not
> come to an end. We just use less energy on lighting our homes and offices.
> Not something I see as a bad thing.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> On 3 Jan 2014, at 16:59, NSURIT@xxxxxxx <javascript:;> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Knowing that these are the same folks who have just done a unilateral
> fruit
> >>> basket turn over to our health care system, I'm not getting a real warm
> >>> and fuzzy feeling.
> >>>
> >>> Heck you guys probably thought school was keeping me so busy I had
> >>> forgotten where I stored the kerosene can.
> >>>
> >>> <{B^) Bill "Sorta Loving Medicare" Barber
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 1/3/2014 8:59:28 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> >>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> writes:
> >>>
> >>> I looked up the law itself and saw that there were many exemptions
> >>> for a wide variety of special types of bulbs including candelabra base
> >>> bulbs. What I didn't realize from reading only parts of the very
> >>> opaquely worded law is that there is really is no ban on incandescent
> >>> light bulbs.
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