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Old 07-24-2006, 12:00 PM   #11
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Converting it to dollars just seems ofuscatory.
Well, not every erg costs the same. A kilowatt-hour bought off the electricity grid will have a different cost than when bought as gasoline in Hawaii. I think using cost as a rough measure of scarcity makes sense.
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