No -- not at all. I'm saying you're not seeing it from
the public sector, either.

I don't.
I see the public as a collection of individuals, each
making his own choice, =A0i.e. the marketplace.

Ah...I see "the public" as also having a separate identity based on the
good of the entire group, not of any single individual.

In this way we can avoid the tragedy of the commons.

What, exactly, is the "public sector", and how
does one "see it" from there?

By taking off one's blinders. Or, in your case, by being hit on the back
of the head with an 18" piece of #6 rebar.

I'm familiar with the Koran, but I'm not a Muslim.
Geez, Sam, if you got any stupider you'd be Hal.

As Mr. Spock would say: fascinating.
So, the laws of economics are a personal choice,
to believe or not believe...

Where did I claim that?

Is anyone here familiar with market economics?

Why yes, yes I am.

So you're "familiar" with it, but don't believe
in it... when you gave that answer on the exam,
what grade did you receive?

I believe you claim some science credentials,
where or what sort I'm not clear... if you quiz
a student on thermodynamics, and he answers,
"Sure, I'm familiar with that entropy stuff, but
I don't believe in it, given the current political
and environmental situation; it's a luxury we
can't afford".... you give him a passing grade?

I did not claim that. I claimed that being familiar with a subject does
not ipso facto make one a believer in it.
I'm "familiar" with the free market (the context of your current
incoherent ramblings) and I asked:

Are you saying that the free market will spontaneously
come up with better energy solutions?

which you deftly refused to answer.
My opinion is that the "free market" (insofar as any *real*
market in which we might be participating is "free")
will NOT, of its own accord come up with better energy solutions
until it is possibly too late. There are too many interests within the fre=

market that would simply have a plain greedy consumption mentality.

There's no need for anything till now... none of
those things have been competitive with petroleum!

*****.
Fusion not competitive with petroleum?

The silence of your lack of response to this is deafening.

it will be a long process of fossil fuel depletion.
There's plenty of time for the market to anticipate...
that means investors and engineers spending
their OWN money, for their own reward or loss...

And the rest of the world be damned.

I do believe you're serious. =A0Amazing.

No, I'm saying that the market will likely blindly "choose" the cheapest
alternative (coal) and continue to do so until such a time as it becomes
too hard to actually generate better power in a world in which it would
be at all pleasant to live.
I hate to say it, but Gerald Moffat is right: you *are* a first-class idio=