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I specifically didn't talk about electricity, because electricity isn't a market. You don't decide to buy so-and-so-many kWh of electricity at such-and-such date. You plug in something, and electricity comes out of the wall. Then at some later date, you get a bill.

Electricity is an infrastructure business.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Oct 3rd, 2009 at 04:36:52 AM EST
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It's an infrastructure business with the usual dysfunctional enterprise model.

There's still no reason why Unitisation could not be used as a complementary funding mechanism to conventional debt and equity.  

Indeed, as a "one time" conversion, unitisation within a partnership framework could release enormous value.

And the result would be an enterprise model that works, and keeps on working, for the benefit of all stakeholders, and not distorted for the benefit of unproductive rentiers.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon Oct 5th, 2009 at 09:06:47 AM EST
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Or you could just have the government run it, like they do in France and used to do in Germany.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Oct 5th, 2009 at 12:15:46 PM EST
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