In sci.skeptic Sylvia Else wrote:
[...]
A desalinator has a significant capital cost, which has to be covered in
the price charged for water. Expressing the price charged by reference
to the running cost is just silly.
[...]

Pot, kettle, black.
You're just contradicting your own arguments again.
In your own Googled value-cum-price "theory" (somwhat too
lacking in predictive power to be called such, but I'm
generous you talk of "cost" and a subjective "value"
with "price" some vague place in between.

I guess you just ack it must be "silly".

Sylvia Else, 20:53 12 Nov 2010:
[Price, value, cost] are completely independent of each other, but in
a real market, if price does not lie between cost and value [so not
so "completely independent" ], then there
will be no transaction. If the price exceeds value, then the purchaser
won't proceed with a transaction. If it is less than cost, then the
seller won't proceed.

Sylvia Else, 15:56 13 Nov 2010
Expressing the price charged by reference to the running cost is just silly.

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