[lbo-talk] Negawatts instead of megawatts

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Oct 12 19:54:54 PDT 2009


On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:


> Shane: James seems not to have read either the quotes he has posted--
> which hail the stoppage of the *proposed* coal-fired station and the
> recognition that the days of building new coal-fired power stations
> are over, but say nothing at all about "shutting down" existying
> stations--nor my mailing which said nothing about the (entirely
> praiseworthy) environmentalist protesters but did point out that an
> increase of a mere $1 (equivalent) per day per year in unemployment
> benefit and wages would pay for the *entire* utility bill after the
> 10 years of increases that would increase its annual cost to the
> £2000 that would presumably reflect the real cost of electrticity
> production.
>
>
>
> Somebody: What's this about adhering to the real cost of electricity
> production? Since when is it a socialist principle to make [prices
> reflect] the real costs for things?

It's called the Law Of Value.

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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