Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by WalterBright on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:59PM (#34097830)

Supply mandates and price fixing. Good ole' central economic planning. What's the inevitable result? Shortages.

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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by defrost on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:06PM (#34101132)

Errr, in this instance you're exactly arse backwards.

The gas supply shortages in the eastern states of Australia arose precisely because of a lack of local supply mandate and price capping baked into the original licenses.

Western Australia has such things and had no shortages.

The inevitable result (in the West) was a transnational being limited in its ability to price gouge in a global supply crisis.

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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by WalterBright on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:30PM (#34102066)

Then there's something else at work here that is not in evidence.

For example, were they granted a legal monopoly?

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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by defrost on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:52PM (#34102174)

> were they granted a legal monopoly?

Err, by "they" do you mean Apache, BHP, BP, Chevron, KufPec, Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsui & Co, Quadrant Energy, Santos, Shell and Woodside Energy ?

(ie Australian LNG producers)

and by "legal monopoloy" do you mean "A market structure characterized by a single seller" ?

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