On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:10:05 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Naturally enough, businesses are walking away from investment where
viability, let alone profitability, is at the whim of a government
whose policies are based on ideology and knee jerk political
advantage.

Of course. They are waiting around for the biggest handout they can
winkle out of whatever government. As usual. Why would they risk any
of their money when they will be given it anyway?

Unreal. They wont risk money because =- as Drax discovered - one moment
they invest 4billion into woodburners and the next the government says
'but that wont qualify for the subsidy we promised you'

Well quite. They want a subsidy. Hardly market forces.

Eon EDf and the like look on and say 'sod that for a game of soldiers,
lets build power stations somewhere else where the government stay out
of the market

Wot no subsidy?


Its all about controlling a non free market for political and social
purposes. As usual it results in a total ****up.

And the free market works oh so well in S Africa...

Like everything in Africa, its squeezed financially until the pips squeak. So not a very good comparison.


NT