Government Administered Production Without Nationalization? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Karl J. Hansen   
Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:20
Whether you look at CO2 as a pollutant or a plant fertilizer, it is puzzling that our governments can effectively administer what way electricity must be produced, without the governments fist purchasing the existing production facilities in order to nationalize them.

The lifespan of a power plant is probably around 50 years or more.  Now it seems, most western governments intend to control a hideous fast transformation of our energy production and they expect to do so by burden the current producers to either bankruptcy or passing a terrifying bill to their customers.

Would it not be more fair play, if the government's dreams where paid for by the government through nationalization?  Apparently the governments want to run the ship, but they really ought to buy it first.

Power generation is probably the most vital business in any modern country and should therefore be taken extremely seriously.  The business is not taken seriously, when you on the one hand have the business owners trying to plan 50 years ahead and at the same time having a government forcefully planning 5 to 20 years ahead.

In most western countries we have a constitution.  These constitutions vary in wording and extend from country to country; but I take it that most of them intend to pass a public voting when issues of vital national change are at play.  We voted, in most countries in Europe, for or against membership of the EU; but a question like the power production, which could end up changing environment and economy far more, is degraded to an issue that is left to Internet blogs and the media.
 

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