Then you'd have a functioning market, but even a functioning energy market would tend to have perverse preferences, due to the higher discount rates used by companies to evaluate investment, which creates a bias towards higher running costs away from higher front-up investment, and due to the fact that the external effects of pollution are not fully internalised.
We have to find ways not to be labelled extremist. One way is to clearly claim the center; the other, I suppose, is to also proudly wear labels that are being painted as extremist (like "socialist") and to stick by our ideas unashamedly.
So yes, I'm a pinko subversive, if that's what they want to call it, and proud of it. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
The thing is, "they" define the center ; and have pulled it so far to what is traditionally right wing that it is almost impossible to claim the center with any kind of left wing proposals. In France, Bayrou's strongly liberal program can pass as "a bit to the left of the center". Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
We have to find ways not to be labelled extremist.
No, we have to make sure that everyone understands who the extremists really are.
It's an interesting accusation and one of many that's going to be used to attack the person and not deal with the issue.
The point to remember is that empirically, we're right and they're wrong. If they want to argue with reality that's their prerogative, but challenging market-speak is the only rational reality-based position in the room.
