OK, I'll drop it. I originally didn't label this as OT because one of
my main concerns was that I wouldn't be able to buy 150 watt halogen
modeling lights for my Alien Bees studio flash units. But we've gotten
far away from that.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/4/2014 8:38 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> We couldn't possibly be further apart. "socially desirable outcomes"
> and "social cost" of energy are not concepts that I accept. Not that
> they don't exist. I just have a problem with who defines it. Is it
> "socially desirable" to raise the cost of energy to the majority of the
> world's poor who already can't afford it?
>
> Besides, I think you missed the point of the link I provided below. It
> purports that the real reason for the lighting efficiency standards had
> nothing to do with energy efficiency. It was a ploy by lighting
> manufacturers to ban the items that they found insufficiently profitable
> because there was too much competition. That's not a socially desirable
> thing either.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/4/2014 12:01 AM, 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> 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
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