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Bremen-Paris with no planes | 48 comments (48 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

rationing by "first come first serve" works just as fine, and is just as fair (or unfair).

Just as rationing by forcing people to share cars if they go in the same direction or close enough could be arguably more useful.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Apr 17th, 2010 at 01:03:14 PM EST
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Re: well, (none / 0)

Just as rationing by forcing people to share cars if they go in the same direction or close enough could be arguably more useful.

Which is just what happened to you... high prices lead to car sharing, people respond to incentives, the market will provide etc. ;)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Apr 17th, 2010 at 01:08:55 PM EST
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Re: well, (none / 0)

The Visible Car Rental Rate of the market?

:-)

by ATinNM on Sat Apr 17th, 2010 at 01:24:56 PM EST
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Re: well, (4.00 / 4)

We Try Harder

signed: The Invisible Hand

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Apr 17th, 2010 at 04:10:31 PM EST
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"first come first serve" (none / 0)

strikes me as clearly fairer. but businesses should still be free to jack up prices when demand spikes.

The point is not to be right, but to get to right.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Sat Apr 17th, 2010 at 01:21:40 PM EST
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Re: "first come first serve" (4.00 / 2)

When demand strikes due to natural disaster there should/can be limits to such price-jacking. 200% of average high for that day, for example, would be expensive yet still fair. 750 euro's? there's no need for that.

by paving on Thu Apr 22nd, 2010 at 06:42:38 PM EST
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It would be most efficient in a crisis to ration by price but require two or more riders per vehicle. The problem with rationing by price is the unfairly skewed income distribution, not rationing by price in itself.

fairleft

by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Thu Apr 22nd, 2010 at 02:25:19 PM EST
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