Re: Energy and "the Clash of Civilizations" -- a policy thought problem

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 20:55:35 MDT


"S.J. Van Sickle" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Greg Burch wrote:
>
> > Assume that you are George W. Bush's senior science policy adivosor. (This
> > means that you are NOT an anarcho-capitalist or even a libertarian -- try it
> > as an exercise for fun.)
>
> O.K. I'm not an anarchocapitalist or a libertarian.
>
> Simple answer: a 50% (or 20%, or 80%...) import duty on oil and petroleum
> products. The market will fill in the details.
>

Go absolutely against the market doing the work in order to make
the market more efficient heh? Uh, NO.

- samantha



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