>This argument was made a few weeks ago in the New York Times by Paul
Krugman, a probable future winner of the nobel prize in economics, and not
exactly a screaming leftist. He said that if the system *wasn't* being
presently being gamed, it would violate the laws of economics.
I'm sure it was gamed, probably wasn't very hard to do, and might even have been legal. :->
However, doesn't shutting down my generator help my competition more than me, if he keeps all his going, and thus benefits more from the shortage I created than I myself benefit from it?