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Originally posted by Dagnabit
One need not produce the same items that one consumes, so long as one's marketplace has the capacity for exchange.
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But therein lies the rub: as we are beginning to see in CA, the marketplace does <b>not</b> necessarily have the capacity for exchanging energy for that consumed by power-guzzling Americans.
Are CA's problems, in large part, due to a system where consumer prices were controlled, but where wholesale prices were not? Yes, in large part. But if Californians had not consumed in the vast levels they did- both in industry and residential settings- then it's very likely that the power crisis would not be as deep as it is.
It's all on us, whether we like it or not.
And we don't,
Z