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>In article <jtnews@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>>How come the California gov't
>>won't raise prices to kill electricity demand?

noring@olagrande.net (Jon Noring) wrote:

>Liberal politics.
>
>
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>
>What's really odd is that the environmental wing of the left should applaud
>raising the price of energy to its true market level since that will reduce
>demand (thereby cutting greenhouse gas emissions), make alternative energy
>more economically attractive, etc.  
>
>Do I see an eventual estrangement between the liberal left and its
>environmentalist wing over this issue?
>
>Jon Noring

Hi,

Consider the situation in Germany. The Greens (who started out as an 
environmental movement) have now come around to supporting the replacement 
of nuclear power plants with coal burning ones.   Not so much because they 
really think coal burning is "better for the environment"--CO2, acid rain, 
flyash, etc---but because they want to strenghten the coal miner unions.

And note that Paul Krugman in his book PEDDLING PROSPERITY was critical of 
Margret Thatcher for shifting the British economy from coal to natural 
gas, because this lessened the power of the unions.  On the Left, the 
environment takes a back seat to the labor unions.


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