Simplification of Problems

Everything, or Everyone, is turning to Sawdust as this article outlines. I await the moment when City Maintenance efforts capture the Concept of selling their Refuse as Product. Few are the Communities that lack fleets of Wood Chippers, all chewing up brush in very expensive, individual hammermill operations. These Chippers, individual units, probably use around 7 gallons of fuel per ton of chipped material. This is highly expensive at $3/gallon. Finding a Market price of $40/ton would be a Fuel Budget boon, if over-the-road Transport Costs did not add too much Energy Cost in transference to Usage Site. The traditional End-use of such Material is some area landfill open to the Public, where Citizens can obtain free mulch (bring their own Transport containers) if they pick it up. The traditional usages for the material mainly relies upon the absorbent qualities of the material, which is quickly lost if it gets Wet. Joining the Sawdust Market would require dry storage, enclosed Pump truckers trailers loaded easily, Truckers dedicated to serving several Communities in serial fashion, and some skill of Marketeers on the Internet. Some would look wide-eyed at my tirade, but there is potential Profits now observable to replace all necessary Capital Equipment and Fuel for the Enterprise every nine or ten years, paying for all Maintenance operations; the price of the Product unlikely to actually reduce in Price.

Bryan Caplan searches for absolutism in the purity of Concepts, denying any flavor or influence less than total. Being a little bit Capitalist is equivalent to being a little bit Black, or the equal little bit Pregnant. This is almost a Lie in discussion of Politics, if you can understand Politics, but Real World efforts are built on the foundation of Success. Why do We have a Social Security program?–Because the greatest majority of the Populace finds the program highly successful. Why has the Anti-Trust legislation been amended, but never ended?–the Polity finds that such constraints upon businesses have their uses. Why is Medicare in danger of extreme amendment?–because almost Everyone realizes it does not work. Politics, like everything found to possess an economic base, works on the principle of efficiency; though it recognizably has the longest delayed reaction to efficient alteration (an estimated half-Generational length).

Here is John Whitehead blowing his own Horn, though it is actually a very good Quote, and he is right to note his contribution. It also fits within my theme for the Day somehow, so I pass it along. Coasean Payments will always run into trouble when discussing Health Care issues: admittedly the greatest Cost, but always generating extreme inflationary pressures. I would favor Court judgements which dealt only with the Costs of the already Dead, and the health care Costs already incurred, rather than deal with Expectations of Cost. No One discusses the Costs of the TVA coal plants being closed, the loss of Health suffered by the loss of economic productivity in the region, or the Costs of alternative Energy sourcing. Inability Substitution Costs should be reducted from any judgement, but Courts and lawyers cannot seem to integrate such economic simplicity. lgl