Comments on: Energy at the speed of thought http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/energy-at-the-speed-of-thought/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim Armstrong http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/energy-at-the-speed-of-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-866 Jim Armstrong Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:48:16 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2548#comment-866 I must say, this was an EXCELLENT post. It is nice to read that reason and logic still find a place in todays world of political debate. Well done. Keep commenting. I must say, this was an EXCELLENT post. It is nice to read that reason and logic still find a place in todays world of political debate. Well done. Keep commenting.

]]> By: jerry wigutow http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/energy-at-the-speed-of-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-858 jerry wigutow Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:52:31 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2548#comment-858 Sir; a very good friend was the man chosen to head up the "synfuels" program. He told me after it was terminated that it was the most gross waste of money he was ever associated with. I believe it lasted 6 months. I have had dealings with the government employees at Natick,MA. the US Army's testing laboratories for many years. This has to do with the making of sleeping bags for soldiers. My conclusion is that any time you are able in the private sector to solve a problem these civil servants will almost always catagorically reject it. The reason I believe is "job security". Once a problem is solved they will lose funding. For an indepth veiw of the subject you can go to my web site www.wiggys.com and click on my archived newsletters. I have written extensively about the subject. Please know that I enjoy each and everyone of your articles. sincerely, Wiggy Sir;
a very good friend was the man chosen to head up the “synfuels” program. He told me after it was terminated that it was the most gross waste of money he was ever associated with. I believe it lasted 6 months.
I have had dealings with the government employees at Natick,MA. the US Army’s testing laboratories for many years. This has to do with the making of sleeping bags for soldiers. My conclusion is that any time you are able in the private sector to solve a problem these civil servants will almost always catagorically reject it. The reason I believe is “job security”. Once a problem is solved they will lose funding. For an indepth veiw of the subject you can go to my web site http://www.wiggys.com and click on my archived newsletters. I have written extensively about the subject.
Please know that I enjoy each and everyone of your articles.
sincerely,
Wiggy

]]> By: Michael Fitzgibbon http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/energy-at-the-speed-of-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-850 Michael Fitzgibbon Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:06:11 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2548#comment-850 Excellent essay! It's astonishingly sad to see what governments have done to energy. In Ontario, power generation is a government-owned monopoly - the most obscene form of government intervention possible. The incompetence of such a system is staggering. Ontario Power Generation carries a debt of $4billion - which of course becomes "public debt". How can a monopoly that provides a service needed by EVERY person, business and institution in the province possibly fail to make a profit, let alone incur losses of incalculable proportions? Only a gov't can achieve this level of failure. The company actually buys advertising on TV to encourage customers to use LESS power! Only a gov't business asks its customers to consume less. Why can't our politicians see the madness in this? In order to invigorate the energy markets, governments have to get out. Excellent essay! It’s astonishingly sad to see what governments have done to energy. In Ontario, power generation is a government-owned monopoly – the most obscene form of government intervention possible. The incompetence of such a system is staggering. Ontario Power Generation carries a debt of $4billion – which of course becomes “public debt”. How can a monopoly that provides a service needed by EVERY person, business and institution in the province possibly fail to make a profit, let alone incur losses of incalculable proportions? Only a gov’t can achieve this level of failure. The company actually buys advertising on TV to encourage customers to use LESS power! Only a gov’t business asks its customers to consume less. Why can’t our politicians see the madness in this? In order to invigorate the energy markets, governments have to get out.

]]> By: Rajesh Dhawan http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/energy-at-the-speed-of-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-848 Rajesh Dhawan Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:34:14 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=2548#comment-848 While discussing the recent power and water riots in India on my blog-http://objectiveman.blogspot.com/2009/06/power-and-water-riots-india.html- I mentioned the same thing about the difference between the private sector and the public sector: I have talked about the problems we face every year during summers on my post "The Unearthly Earth Hour." The government seems to be no hurry to relinquish control over the power and water sectors and instead preaches the virtues of conservation. The governments all over routinely force businesses to shut down to save power. It doesn't strike people as odd that in sectors where there is free-competition there is no such talk and consumers are exhorted to consume more and get better prices as more competition arrives. It has happened in telecom which previously was a government monopoly and people had to wait for as long as ten years to get a phone connection. Today you can get a cell phone connection in minutes and even people earning less then $2 a day have a phone. In Delhi call rates are as low as 20 paise (half a cent) a minute. The same has been seen in all the sectors which have been liberated from the slimy paws of the bureaucrats. While discussing the recent power and water riots in India on my blog-http://objectiveman.blogspot.com/2009/06/power-and-water-riots-india.html- I mentioned the same thing about the difference between the private sector and the public sector:

I have talked about the problems we face every year during summers on my post “The Unearthly Earth Hour.” The government seems to be no hurry to relinquish control over the power and water sectors and instead preaches the virtues of conservation. The governments all over routinely force businesses to shut down to save power.

It doesn’t strike people as odd that in sectors where there is free-competition there is no such talk and consumers are exhorted to consume more and get better prices as more competition arrives. It has happened in telecom which previously was a government monopoly and people had to wait for as long as ten years to get a phone connection.

Today you can get a cell phone connection in minutes and even people earning less then $2 a day have a phone. In Delhi call rates are as low as 20 paise (half a cent) a minute. The same has been seen in all the sectors which have been liberated from the slimy paws of the bureaucrats.

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