Please Blame the Deregulation and Regulation Fiascos Parte 30

Above sequence illustrates why captive academics are so valuable to entrenched interests. The academics are masters of techniques such as appearing to discredit ideas they'd prefer go away by simply refusing to acknowledge them while taking sidelong swipes at them in their memo's to each other.

eg. "You probably add that the centralized metering system would be designed by committee and, therefore, expensive to boot." What's the ideal alternative? Everybody installs whatever meter they like *<}

I'm still waiting for anyone to acknowledge Independent Market for Every Utility Customer - Preliminary Business Case or Independent Market for Every Utility Customer Part 2 - Market Operation