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   From: sinister@nospam.invalid   
      
   "Bob Kolker"  wrote in message   
   news:56kecuF2a3j4rU1@mid.individual.net...   
      
   > Btw cheap energy will NOT lead to a break up of the U.S. into county or   
   > town size governments. It will probably lead to a general reduction in the   
   > role over government since prosperity will followin the wake of a very   
   > cheap energy source. Since scarcity does not have to allocated most   
      
   Bullroar.   
      
   First, you still have to build roads and sewers.   
      
   Second, you still have to provide education for the young, which as Roy has   
   pointed out the "free market" isn't going to provide enough of, because  you   
   can't capitalize individuals and their training (absent indentured   
   servitude).   
      
   Third, Freeman Dyson once told me that he was on a study looking at what   
   happened if energy (in this case, electricity) truly became too cheap to   
   meter.  He said there was still so much to deal with (presumably referring   
   to other necessary infrastructure) that while it would change things, it   
   wouldn't radically alter them to the extent that you're implying.   
      
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