Buying too much


Power companies have to ask their customers not to use so much of their product because government won't let them expand to meet your needs
Sean Lynch at Cattalarchy has the right idea.

Hoping to avoid shortages of their flagship product, Coca Cola has begun asking consumers to limit their purchases of Coke. “We realize that we have an excellent product and it’s been really hot lately, but please, if you could just cut back a little, it would help a lot,” said company spokeswoman Greta Hansel. “We’re going to have to stop shipping to stores in certain areas pretty soon if people don’t reduce their Coke consumption.”

This is the scenario I think of every time I hear an ad from a power company asking me to “save energy.” What the hell kind of business asks people to use less of its product? Who would buy stock in such a business? In the real world, if there is less of something available, prices go up so that people use less and it never runs out. Unfortunately, power companies don’t operate in the real world. They operate in a world where they have to ask permission from Mommy to raise rates.

In order to "protect" consumers, governments have created the very shortages that they try to blame on the power companies.

Where is the incentive to improve if every single change has to be approved by a government commission?

Consumer choice is the basis of the free market, and it is the only way that things get cheaper and better at the same time.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - July 27, 2006 at 05:06 AM  Tag


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