11-12-2013, 12:06 PM
quote:
Originally posted by MarkP
Imagine if you had a produce stand at which you sold stuff you had grown, but all your neighbors thought that they should get to sell their stuff at your stand and that furthermore their stuff should sell first, only buying your stuff if they absolutely ran out. You would get no income and would have to maintain the stand, plus keep growing just as much produce for those times when others couldn't supply themselves. That would clearly be ridiculous.
Not really, MarkP.
Granted, "vilification" is way, way too often the mode on blogs -- and, IMHO, especially by those not using their own names.
Anyway, about that fruit stand:
The HELCO situation is more like if only the neighbor with the fruit stand was allowed to sell fruit; and, if you produce fruit, you are allowed to sell it only through them and then only if they choose to buy it after they have sold all of their own fruit.