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eppur_se_muova

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1. So ... we're burning bunker fuel to ship coal halfway around the world ??

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 18, 2025, 11:47 PM

Aug 18

I think I'd fail free-market economics. Not because I don't understand it, but because I don't understand why we let it work without constraints, even when constraints are desperately needed.

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So ... we're burning bunker fuel to ship coal halfway around the world ?? eppur_se_muova Aug 18 #1

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