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That's what I'm trying, but when I have the shortcode on the page, nothing shows.
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˜Smokey Joe Barton: Global Warming ˜Is A Net Benefit To Mankind
This is a repost from Think Progress.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), nicknamed "Smokey Joe" for his persistent advocacy on behalf of polluters, sat for an interview with C-Span this weekend to discuss a variety of environmental issues.
Barton expressed concern that regulation of carbon dioxide pollution would restrict his "convenient" and "modern lifestyle." "I don't want to go back to the 1870s where my great-grandparents lived on a dry land cotton farm in Texas with no running water and no electricity and their power source was their own muscles or animal power," Barton feared.
He then argued that the warming of the planet is actually a "net benefit" for humans:
CO2 is odorless, colorless, tasteless – it's not a threat to human health in terms of being exposed to it. We create it as we talk back and forth. So, and if you go beyond that, on a net basis, there's ample evidence that warming generically "" however it is caused "" is a net benefit to mankind.
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Ironically, just as Barton is pushing his claim that warming is beneficial for humans, the Pentagon is concluding that "global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security." In its upcoming 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, Pentagon planners will report that climate change could result in food and water scarcity, pandemics, population displacement, and other destabilizing events that could create conflict.
"The American people expect the military to plan for the worst," says retired Vice Adm. Lee Gunn, a 35-year Navy veteran now serving as president of the American Security Project. "It's that sort of mindset, I think, that has convinced, in my view, the vast majority of military leaders that climate change is a real threat and that the military plays an important role in confronting it."
Barton took issue with Sarah Palin's call for Obama to boycott Copenhagen. "I like Sarah Palin as a person"¦I would disagree with her though. I think the President's got every right to go to Copenhagen," he said.
JR: Barton also loves TVMOB aka Lord "Hitler Youth" Monckton (see Rep. Barton: Climate change is 'natural,' humans should just 'get shade' "" invites 'expert' TVMOB (!) to testify).
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I don´t know if you are aware that Federal Government in Brazil was about to do a bid for thermal energy plants. It was canceled on December 9, 2009.
Yesterday, another bid for eolic energy was succesfully concluded. There will be 71 plants that will produce 1.8 GW of energy by the middle of 2012.
Here is the press release(in portuguese, unfortunately) of the bid.
I like that term – eolic energy. Aeolian energy. Rolls well off the tongue.
"warming generically — however it is caused — is a net benefit to mankind"
It kind of makes you wonder what Smokey Joe has been smoking.
Like many Republicans, when it comes to climate change Rep. Barton is out of step with science, with national security, and with the long-term needs of his constituents.
Our political system provides, at regular intervals, a chance to correct that situation.
I'm not on Barton's side, but I don't think the Pentagon (or any military organization) should be considered credible just because it contradicts Barton. In fact, Lee Gunn says in the second last paragraph:
"The American people expect the military to plan for the worst … It's that sort of mindset, I think, that has convinced, in my view, the vast majority of military leaders that climate change is a real threat and that the military plays an important role in confronting it."
Remember Iraq's WMD. There's a rich library of support for the notion that AGW is bad. I don't think the military's say-so adds very much.
Global Warming-IS- Human / Industrial Pollution
The best indisputable SCIENCE example that should be the #1 item on the Copenhagen Agenda would be the toxic waste dump, the size of Texas, 900 miles off of the United States and Canadian West Coast.
That is a Big SCIENCE problem with no dedicated U.S SCIENCE and INNOVATION DEPARTMENT to address the issue. The U.S (or Canada) has not even sent out a SCIENCE research vessel to evaluate this ecological disaster; neither country wants to take the responsibility for the industrial/human pollution or even acknowledge its existence.
No Profit-No Action!-No SCIENCE! Will the World Trade Organization and the New Industrial World Order address the issue? Where is their World SCIENCE Department? Advancement in SCIENCE would outmode the use of fossil fuels.
Can the problem be solved with SCIENCE? Probably so, Americans are very ingenious primarily because we were raised with the compliments of Freedom and Democracy and are free thinking individuals. We could probably figure a way to clean up the mess and possibly make a profit doing so.
We can do nothing until we have a DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE that is free to address SCIENCE and to develop the advancement of SCIENCE. (Yes, for the sake of humanity; SCIENCE FIRST-PANDERING SECOND.)
I am glad the military is taking climate change seriously for the simple reason that they may get a few of the more reasonable conservatives to realize that climate change affects more than just the tree-hugging hippies.
Climate refugees are going to be a huge issue in the coming decades, and I think the more clear-eyed generals realize this.
If "Smokey" doesn't want to go back to the old days when there was no running water, no electricity, etc., then I think someone needs to tell him– that's exactly what will happen if we do nothing about global warming… only it will be much,much worse than "the old days.
As far as the Pentagon reports.. there is a good website that tells about this, "Peak Oil, Matt Savinar, Life After the Oil Crash". According to this site:
Halliburton was awarded a $400 million contract to build vast new domestic detention camps within the US. The camps are obstensibly for the purpose of housing influx of immigrants… In June 2007, the Pentagon was running war games on the grandest scale to simulate how billions of people will react to food and fuel shortages, including… on US homeland.
Funny thing: About a year ago, I was told there were these empty "concentration camps" being built throughout the U.S. I looked on the Internet, and sure enough! Huge, empty prisons being worked on throughout the country. Military people involved. Barbed wired turned inward, one-way revolving doors, etc. I didn't think much about it; Bush and Cheney were always up to something sneaky. Recently, as I lay awake with insomnia, the idea occurred: the Pentagon has known about GW for quite some time; I bet those empty prisons are for us… and that is exactly what that story said. "Obstensibly they are for illegal immigrants; in reality they're for us, when climate chaos takes place, when there's large bands of lawless, hungry people… when things start really getting bad!
Reinsurance magazine, (2005, June): The Pentagon report states, "There is substantial evidence to suggest that significant global warming will occur during the 21st. century… It is quite plausible that within a decade the evidence of an imminent abrupt shift may become clear and reliable." Yep, they've known. Even in the Bush administration!


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Relevant Evaluation:
§ What size the tax should be
§ The problems of correctly measuring external costs (to set the correct tax)
§ The ineffectiveness of taxing products which have inelastic demand
§ The need for international rather than national taxes to be set as otherwise polluters simply move production to other countries
§ The problems of enforcing and monitoring regulations (and the resulting opportunity cost issues)
5 Government intervention at internalizing any positive externality
To encourage consumption through:
§ Introduction of subsidies
§ Use of legislation
Relevant Evaluation:
§ The difficulties of establishing exactly what size the subsidy should be
§ The cost to the government (& associated opportunity cost issues)
§ The ineffectiveness of subsidy if products have inelastic demand
6 Information Failure
Need to consider the reason for under/over provision of the goods.
In the case of merit goods:
§ Analyze the fact that consumers fail to see how beneficial these products are for them and therefore under consume because they only consider the lower private benefits rather than the total social benefit.
In the case of demerit goods:
§ Consumers fail to see how harmful these products are and therefore over-consume
7 Factor Immobility
Need to explain the problem of market failure in terms of factors of production not being responsive to price signals. For example, whilst demand switches away from manufacturing goods, production cannot switch to services due to the immobile nature of capital. When factors of production no longer respond to price signals then market failure arises.
Common example is the application to labour market immobility:
If workers have 'specific' skills in manufacturing and are unable to acquire the skills required to undertake the jobs now on offer, then they will suffer from structural unemployment due to occupational immobility.
Likewise, if workers are unable to move to other areas of the country where there are job vacancies then they will suffer from regional unemployment due to geographical immobility (This is may not be applicable to Singapore as we are a small country & the whole city state is well connected with efficient road or MRT system). This represents market failure because resources (in this case labour) are not being used to their full potential.
Government policies to solve problems caused by factor immobility:
§ Training and re-training
§ The provision of more information on job vacancies
§ The availability of more affordable housing for workers
Evaluation of government policies:
§ The above policies are expensive and are more long-term in nature
§ Hence, government intervention may not correct market failure in the short term
§ Training & re-training policies may fail to address market failure if they fail to provide workers with the skills necessary to undertake new jobs.
Reference: EDEXEL Q&A
|Granted that government should only subsidize basic healthcare, but if a Class C patient wants better facilities such as air-conditioning or any better "hotel facilities" of hospital care and is willing to pay for them without subsidy, he should be catered to. Comment.
It is not justified to allow a Class C subsidized patient to enjoy "hotel facilities" even though he is willing to pay for them. This is because it is not possible to compartmentalize subsidies. The argument for health subsidy is based on the premise that it has a higher priority claim for equity reason, in terms of need and value than other needs eg for air-conditioning. Had the patient not been subsidized for his healthcare, he would presumably be using his money to pay for his health care first. So it is the health subsidy which enables him to save money to pay for the non-critical needs. In a sense therefore we are subsidizing his air-conditioning in the hospital even though it is quite clear we will not have subsidized his air-conditioning at home. This does not fulfill the objective of the medical subsidy which is only suppose to focus on subsidizing basic & essential healthcare services to those who cannot afford them.
From Fig 1 & 2, we see that assuming the cost of supplying the medical treatment is the same for both wards, the subsidy amounting to the difference between the price of Class A ward (PA) and the price of Class C ward (Pc) is 'saved' by the patient, by virtue of the fact that he is staying in Class C ward will enable him to use the money to pay for the air-conditioning.
Fig 1: Market for Class A wards Fig 2: Market for Class C wards
|Price SS
|Qty of Class C Wards
Qty of Class A Wards
|Price SS
Pc DD (no frills allowed)
There is another angle to this issue. Since there are very substantial differentials in subsidies between classes of wards and since the medical treatment standard cannot vary between classes, there is a possibility of someone seeking very sophisticated or costly treatment shifting to a lower class of ward. Hence if the non-medical amenities in the Class C wards are just as comfortable as the Class A wards, the incentive for such a shift is even greater. This would defeat the attempt to have a graduated subsidy system whereby those who can afford should be subsidized less. The more basic the lower class wards are, the more effective they are as a deterrent against such shifts and therefore act as a substitute for a means test for ward admissions. (Note: A means test is an examination of the personal and financial circumstances of an individual to assess his or her eligibility for benefits under a country's system of social security benefits.)
The principle of price discrimination is used here. From Fig 1 and 2, we can see that a segmentation of the two markets can be made if we do not allow the addition of 'frills' in Class C wards. This will ensure that Class C wards will be demanded only by patients who are poor and need the subsidy and prevent patients with the ability to pay to benefit from the Class C Wards. The latter group of patients will not opt for the "no frills" Class C wards because they feel that they cannot live without air-conditioning which they are used to at home.
An additional note on the concept of public goods is useful here. A public good has to satisfy two conditions – non-excludability (ie no consumer can be easily excluded from consumption, with broadcast signals often being used as an example); and non-rivalry in consumption (ie my consumption of it does not affect your consumption). Very few goods can satisfy these strict criteria.
Since healthcare is both rivalry & excludable, it cannot be categorized as a public good. Instead, it is a merit good because if left to the free market allocation, insufficient amount will be produced or consumed. Hence, there is a need for government to subsidize basic healthcare. In order to ensure that such subsidies benefit those who need it most, means testing is implemented.
Healthcare in Singapore is financed by a combination of taxes, employee medical benefits, compulsory savings in the form of Medisave, insurance and out-of-pocket payment. When healthcare subsidies benefit the poor most, it fulfills both the efficiency and equity aims of government policy.
In order to minimize abuse, the financing philosophy of Singapore's healthcare delivery system is based on individual responsibility and community support. Patients are expected to co-pay part of their medical expenses and to pay more when they demand a higher level of service. At the same time, government subsidies help to keep basic healthcare affordable. To help Singaporeans to pay for their medical expenses, the government has put in place a financing framework, which consists of Medisave, Medishield, Eldershield and Medifund.
Suggested guiding questions:
- How does a merit good differ from a public good ?
- Can the free market provide merit goods ?
- Why is there a need for government intervention in the case of healthcare ?
- What is means testing ?
- Should patients staying in Class C wards be allowed to opt for better facilities, which are available in Class A and B wards, if they are willing to pay for the facilities in full ? Assume the role of the Minister of Health of Singapore and justify your views.
|Since education is a basic need, the government should pay for education or highly subsidize it up to and including tertiary education. Comment
Most governments today subsidize education up to the tertiary level. The case for subsidy up to the secondary level is quite strong. Education provides literacy, a lingua franca, and a pre-requisite to absorb higher level skills. A government subsidy can be viewed as a collective investment decision by the society paid for by taxes from the current generation for the training of the next. But the case for government subsidies varies with each level of education.
Primary school education is the most basic. It is now widely regarded that literacy is so crucial to society and its functions that it should be available to all. Some countries, including Singapore has even made it legally compulsory. Since this level of education must be provided for all and the syllabi are basic and standardized, it is best provided for by the state and subsidized from general taxation. No issue of equity of tax burden is at stake as it is provided from general taxation. The free market cannot provide universal education at primary levels adequately when the main beneficiary is the population at large and the economic pay-off to the market is rather diffuse and uncertain. A free market solution will not be able to allocate resources efficiently in the provision of education at the primary level.
(Note: Primary education was made compulsory in Singapore in Jan 2003 with the intention to give every Singaporean child the same head start in life and be taught the foundational knowledge and skills that will enable him to further his education and training later on.)
For secondary education, the case for complete government subsidy is weaker as not everyone proceeds on to this level. However, with increasing sophistication in the economy, the value of a universal or very high proportion of the population possessing secondary education is increasingly being recognized. Societies with high secondary literacy rates tend to have higher productivity rates and higher competitiveness as the general higher educational attainment makes the population more receptive to complex skills training in a knowledge-based economy. In an agrarian society, it may be better off for the worker in the fields as soon as possible or have vocational training instead of a general academic education. In an IT age, a worker with secondary education will be more easily trainable (assuming a given amount of intelligence in the individual) than a primary school graduate. Given the positive externalities to the economy of literacy and in Singapore's case, the near universal attainment of secondary education, it is justifiable and efficient for the government to subsidize secondary education. This is all the more so given that the human resource is our most valuable factor of production. Further, a ready supply of educated workers is an asset in attracting investment which may otherwise go elsewhere.
Using economic analysis, we term primary and secondary education as a merit good. The consumption of education will generate external benefits to the society. Hence, left to the market forces, there will be an under-production as well as under-consumption of education. Government intervention is required to ensure that a socially optimum level of production and consumption is achieved at QSoc (refer to fig 1).
Price of Education MSB MPC=MSC
P0 Positive Externalities = amt of subsidy
QPte QSoc
|Quantity of Education
As we reach tertiary education however, the case further weakens. In some advanced countries, private universities do exist and this shows that the market, or at least a non-government body (usually a so-called non-profit trust) can respond to the need for tertiary education. By the time, the student has a full successful secondary education and has the capacity to undertake a university education, he would have been sufficiently informed to make a decision on his future career. His ability would be known and the value of any further education can be reasonably ascertained. It will be feasible for a potential employer or a bank to issue a loan to finance the student's education just as companies can take a view to borrow to invest in any plan or equipment. The economic value of the subject of study and the 3 – 5 years' horizon are sufficiently certain for the market to assess and finance. The advantage of such a system is the minimization of waste as only the course of highest economic relevance will be financed most readily.
The disadvantage is that certain courses not seen to be of immediate value may be underdeveloped. The Arts and the Basic or Pure Sciences subjects may be undervalued as their payoff is less certain.
A purely free market approach also favours those with greater creditworthiness, financial assets, collateral backing or financing, say from parents, which may not be correlated with the talent of the individual students. Thus a system of government bursaries or government guaranteed loans for poorer but brighter students has to supplement this if society's talent is to be more fully exploited.
Another argument is that, it is in a sense "fairer" for those selected few who want a higher education to pay for it themselves than to use general taxation paid for by everyone to finance the education of a selected few. However, this argument is mitigated by the fact that the total tax burden is always highly skewed in the Pareto sense of a small number bearing the heavier part of the tax burden unless the country has no taxes other than a flat general consumption tax. Thus with a meritocratic admission system, one may argue that it is fair for part of the wealth of the society in general to be used for the education of these smaller group of talent for the betterment of that society in the next generation; a form of income redistribution from one generation to another.
The case for subsidizing tertiary education is finely balanced so that no country has left tertiary education to the free market exclusively. Where private universities and colleges exist, they supplement rather than replace government ones. Bursaries, scholarships, state grants etc have always been part of the scene. So the convention judgement is that tertiary education should be mainly subsidized.
As we move further up into more specialized vocational training eg those provided by employers, the case for a government subsidy becomes practically non-existent. The situation is the reverse of that of basic education. Just as the free market will have difficulty assessing the worth of primary and secondary education, government will find it difficult to put a value to the worth of specific company training programmes. Economic discipline is better exercised in the free market and the fewer distortions created by subsidies from the government the better it is.
If the government tries to give a general subsidy of all specific training i.e. one open to every company to apply for, then the outcome is similar to a general tax break for the industry and an inefficient one at that because the subsidy cannot be spent on other things which may be of more value to the company.
The only case for subsidized specific training is when there is market failure or when the government wants to develop new areas of skills in a specific field. This could either be in emergent skills where the market has yet to recognize or to make up for past deficiencies in the education system or to develop skills in sectors where we are already behind others and have to catch up. However, in the nature of such things, these subsidies must be selective and targeted rather than broadly applied.
Suggested guiding questions:
- How does a merit good differ from a public good ?
- Can free market provide merit goods ?
- Why is there a need for government intervention in the case of education ?
- Should education be uniformly subsidized at all levels (primary, secondary and tertiary) ? Justify your answer.
- Education at the primary and secondary levels is basic and should be highly subsidized. However, tertiary education is not basic and should not be highly subsidized. Do you agree ?
|The government should not increase the upfront cost of car ownership but raise car operating costs and road pricing to better manage traffic and vehicle usage. Comment.
The statement is probably true.
The total cost of owning and operating a car in Singapore comprises the vehicle purchase costs, finance charges on vehicle loan(s), gasoline and motor oil expenses, car insurance expenses, maintenance and repair expenses, road tax and other fees. The quantity demanded for cars is inversely related to the total cost of owning and operating it.
The supply of cars in Singapore is determined by Vehicle Quota System (VQS) which was implemented in May 1990 (refer to Fig 1). This system controls the growth of the vehicle population at a sustainable rate. Certificate of Entitlement (COEs) must be obtained through a process of competitive bidding before a vehicle can be registered. The vehicle quotas are revised annually, considering de-registration patterns and sustainable growth rates relative to road space constraint.
Fig 1: Market for Cars in Singapore
|Total Cost
Of owning
a car P2
|Quantity of Cars
The government can either increase the upfront cost of car ownership or raise the car operating costs to reduce the quantity demanded for cars. Referring to Fig 1, when the car operating costs increase, the supply curve shift left, showing that less quantity of cars will be supplied at each price level. This is further reflected in the higher price of car ownership ( an increase from P1 to P2). Although there is a need to strike a balance between car ownership and car operating cost, it is generally believed that the latter (ie car operating cost) is a more effective tool to manage traffic and vehicle usage. The basis of the argument here is that it is the usage of cars and not the ownership that contributes to road congestion.
The upfront cost of car ownership in Singapore comprises the down-payment for the car (ie the price of the car, inclusive of the COE price and interest charges, minus the loan amount), insurance fee and road tax. Raising the upfront cost of car ownership will reduce the growth of the vehicle population, but it may not be effective in managing traffic and vehicle usage. In fact, it is generally believed that having a high ownership cost distorts usage pattern by encouraging car owners to drive frequently, since the car has been paid for.
The cost of operating a car in Singapore comprises the cost of gasoline and motor oil, maintenance and repair expenses, car park charges as well as Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges. Wile the costs of gasoline and motor oil as well as the wear and tear costs are determined by market forces, the ERP system is put in place by the government to moderate and spread out vehicle usage for a more optimal and congestion-free road network. It is believed that the ERP is a more efficient and precise instrument in controlling congestion and by moderating vehicle usage (rather than ownership), a higher overall vehicle population can be supported.
However, the up-front cost of car-ownership should not be decreased excessively as higher car population implies that any mistake in road pricing (in terms of amount charge and time of operations) due to a miscalculation of demand will probably lead to more severe traffic congestions. The demand for parking space will also increase, leading to the need to build more massive carparks or charge higher carpark fees, hence increasing the cost of operating a car.
Relying on either one of the policy tools will not be good. The Authority will need to strike a balance between control of car ownership and car usage tools to ensure that traffic and vehicle usage in Singapore can continue to be managed efficiently and effectively in the long run.
Suggested guiding questions:
- If you were to purchase a car, what are your monetary considerations ?
- What are the factors affecting the upfront costs of car ownership ?
- What are the factors affecting car operating or usage costs ?
- Why is there a need for the government to better manage traffic and vehicle usage ?
- How will
- Increasing the upfront cost of car ownership
- Raising car operating cost and
- Road pricing help in the management of traffic and vehicle usage ?
- In your opinion, which one of the above is most effective in managing traffic and vehicle usage ? Justify your views,
1 Control of Car population
Given Singapore's small size, it is important to manage vehicle ownership and usage. The demand for car ownership needs to be balanced with the number of vehicles using the roads. If these two competing demands are not managed properly, it could lead to serious traffic congestion on the roads. The two principal demand management tools for road traffic management are the Vehicle Quota System (VQS) and Electronic Road Pricing (ERP).
VQS was implemented in May 1990 to control the growth of the vehicle population at a sustainable rate. Under this system, the Land Transport Authority (LTA), which is a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport, determines the number of new vehicles allowed for registration while the market determines the price of owning a vehicle. In determining the number of cars allowed for registration, LTA takes into account the prevailing traffic conditions and the number of vehicles taken off the roads permanently. The quota allocated to each vehicle category is in proportion to that category's share of the total vehicle population and revised annually, looking at de-registration patterns and sustainable growth rates. The vehicle quota for a given year is administered through the monthly release of Certificates of Entitlement (COEs).
COEs must be obtained through a process of competitive bidding before a vehicle can be registered.
|Statement 1:
"Pay-as-you-bid" for COE will collect less money for the government. Comment
The objective to government intervention is to control car population and not to derive revenue. The government can only set the price or the quantity of COEs. Given that the government set quotas on the number of cars via COEs, it necessarily implies that the prices of the COEs will be based on the demand for cars.
Under the current "common pricing" or "minimum successful bid" system whereby the COE price is determined by the lowest successful bid price, the "pay-as-you-bid" system, which charges each bidder price according to what he bids, should lead to an increase in government revenue.
Under the "minimum successful bid" system, the quota premium is based on the minimum successful bid submitted. Hence except for the marginal bidder, the other successful bidders would gain consumer surplus as they are paying an actual price lower than their reserve price ie the maximum amount that they would have been prepared to pay. This can be illustrated using Fig 1.
Fig 1: Market for COEs
|Quantity of COEs
|SS (Fixed Supply – Quota)
|Price of COEs
The "pay-as-you-bid" system will increase the government's revenue. Here, the government would be able to charge a separate price to each consumer that reflected the maximum amount that the consumer was prepared to pay, hence appropriating all consumer surplus in the form of government revenue. This is illustrated in Fig 2.
Fig 2: Market for COEs
|Quantity of COEs
|SS (Fixed Supply – Quota)
|Price of COEs
| Government
This answer can be explained by a simple numerical example. Under the current system, suppose a consumer is willing to pay $30,000 for his COE to buy a car, if the lowest successful bid is $20,000, he will 'save' $10,000 or enjoy a consumer surplus of $10,000. On the other hand, under the "pay-as-you-bid" system, he will pay his bid of $30,000 if successful and will have no 'savings' or consumer surplus at all.
Under the "pay-as-you-bid" system, in the event that consumers have a very accurate prediction of the likely COE prices, then the government may not be able to obtain a significant increase in revenue if the final COE prices are close to what most consumers bid.
One additional factor that we should consider in a real-life situation is that gaming behavior will have an impact on the outcomes. While auction theory tends to assume that bidders know their own reservation price and their valuation of the product being bid for ie the maximum amount that they would have been prepared to pay, in reality, this does not hold true. Bidders may be swayed by others' bidding to increase their bids. The design of the rules of auction becomes significant, eg whether the bids are sealed or whether bidding information is available to bidders in real-time.
Currently the "common pricing" or "minimum successful bid" system is used instead of the "pay-as-you-bid" system due to implementation and equity issues. It was predicted that the "pay-as-you-bid" system would not work as consumers are entitled to bid for COEs indefinitely and repeatedly at any point in time. This will result in people trying their luck and bidding at a price much lower than the actual value that they placed on the COE at the start and gradually increasing it if their bid is not successful. The short term effect is that prices will be set below the equilibrium and the common clearing price might only be reached in the long run. However, it was noted that this problem arose because of the closed bidding system and would have been resolved when the open bidding system was adopted in April 2002.
Open Bidding System
COEs must be obtained through a process of competitive bidding before a vehicle can be registered. Open Bidding of COEs was introduced in April 2002, after a trial in the second quarter of 2001. The online COE Open Bidding System was developed to provide a greater degree of transparency. It provides bidders with better access to information during the bidding process to make more informed decisions.
January 2005 2nd Open Bidding Exercise has ended on 19/01/2005 16:00 hrs
|Results for JANUARY 2005 2nd Open Bidding Exercise
|Quota Premium (QP)($)
|Prevailing Quota Premium (PQP)($)
|Car (1600cc & below) & Taxi
|Car (Above 1600cc)
|Goods Vehicle & Bus
|PQP: Prevailing Quota Premium (for existing vehicles). It is a moving average of QP over the last 3 months.
|Results for JANUARY 2005 2nd Open Bidding Exercise
|Car (1600cc & below) & Taxi
|Car (Above 1600cc)
|Goods Vehicle & Bus
|Received: Total Bids Received
|Unused: Unused Quota carried forward
Some questions for you to think through:
1. Congestion caused by motorists driving their cars during peak hours has often been cited as an example of a negative externality in Singapore. Explain.
2. What are the various public policy tools used in managing car ownership and/or usage in Singapore ?
3. Do COEs control car ownership or usage ?
4. Are COEs more effective in reducing road congestion as compared to other policy measures ? Do measures complement each other ? Explain your reasons.
5. How do motorists bid for COEs ?
6. What is the difference between a closed and an open bidding system ?
7. How does an alternative bidding system, like "pay-as-you-bid" differ from the current "common pricing" or "minimum successful bid" system ?
8. Which system is likely to be more effective in controlling car ownership ?
9. Which system is likely to collect more revenue for the government ?
10. Should the amount of government revenue collected be a consideration when issuing COEs to control car population ?
11. Which system would you prefer as a future motorist ? support your answer.
12. Which system would you implement if you were the Transport Minister ? Give your reasons.


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Uhhh...2yrs in a row same result? Yeah we pretty much are. Also it was a nice sentiment by Whit trying to protect Star but he's supposed to be one of the most dominant defensive players in the country and we didn't pressure their QB or slow down their RBs.
It's also the 2nd yr in a row to go flat after the BYU game. Maybe it's a good thing Whit and Hill want to quit the rivalry. It just takes to much out of us.
- 8:50 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Dear Utah,
Sorry we ruined your season.
Utah State
- 9:17 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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That is all you say bcs? bcs that and bcs this. How old are you really?
- 9:36 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Utah is a nice one sport school. Some decades it's basketball, some it's football, but almost never at the same time. One other thing, when you get sky high for one game, it often takes a toll on you the next game. The Utes will need to learn to play each game as it comes without emotion. If you get sky high for USC, watch out for UCLA and OSU. (and as for BYU, yes, we are sick of how our offense is being coached and played! We should be 4-0 but you can't woulda, shoulda)
- 9:48 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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The last sentence of your post speaks volumes about the kind of person you are:
"it is now our turn to sit back and enjoy the beating you are and will continue to take!"
Wow - that is simply terrible and frankly unbelievable. What kind of world do you live in? I think you need to take some time off from football and get a better sense for what brings you joy in your life. If enjoyment in your life is watching other people fail than you have some serious soul searching to do. Are you a member of the same church that BYU represents? Is this the kind of exposure BYU is looking for? Exposure in the form of getting joy from other people's failures?
- 9:56 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Seriuosly give me a break. We had one horrible game. Does anyone remember when
we started something like 0-4 in the conference and ended up 1 field goal away
from the title game? Yes, USC was not eligible last year, but we're down 1
game and people are talking about not going to a bowl or not having a shot.
USC hasn't looked amazing either. If we win next week(which I think we will) everyone will saying correctly that Utah is the team to beat in the division. Especially, if we beat USC that means that we would have to lose TWO more for USC to have a chance, since we'd hold the tie breaker over them.
Ugly game, we got trounced. But one game is very easily overcome. Just look at last year. We overcame a 4 game deficit.
- 9:58 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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RedBlood - Why am I not surprised that a Utah fan would bring religion into the
fray? Way too predictable for Utah fans to play the "religion card"
when you have nothing else to fall back on.
I have lived in Salt Lake City for 20 years and have had to endure the continual barage of hatred thrown at BYU by members of the predominant relgion and otherwise. And now that Utah is down on its luck you are going to critize me for enjoying the beatdown Utah is and will continue to take? And for what reason - religion??? Give me a break.
Are you telling me that Utah fans don't enjoy it when BYU loses? Why aren't you calling them out? Doesn't it seem a bit hypocritical to single me out when most Utah fans, the majority of whom are of the predominant religion, hate the school and football team that is owned and operated by their Church?
I will not apologize or feel the least bit sorry about my enjoyment of watching the University of Utah (and its fans) get humbled in any sport they play!
I can't wait until the USC game!
- 10:37 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Look it up buddy, ASU was NOT ranked when the Utes lost to the Sun Devils.
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"Does anyone remember when we started something like 0-4 in the conference
and ended up 1 field goal away from the title game?"
You've obviously forgotten that the Utes finished in 8th place with a losing conference record and were dominated at home by one of the worst teams in the country.
You didn't overcome a 4-game deficit, even though the team that actually won the division was ineligible, and ASU and UCLA both collapsed down the stretch. The likelihood of ASU, UCLA, USC and Arizona all collapsing to hand you the division this season... is NIL.
Utah's loss to USC will dash any hope the Utes might have had to win the division.
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My thoughts exactly. I too thoroughly enjoyed the Utah ASU game over the weekend. I smiled every time I thought of all our great Ute friends on these boards. Pathetic when they forget that many Ute fans represent the Mormon church just as Mormon byu fans do and somehow try to force BYU fans into a mold they think they should fall into, only to make fun of that mold the next day.
I'm with you Balan. I will enjoy every Ute loss, this year and the in years to come. It makes me so happy your comments bothered some Ute fans too Balan. I get great joy when they are unhappy!
- 11:05 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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@u mad bro
uhh based on your pathetic showing against boise state. you scored SIX points LOL!!
asu is far and away better than boise state that is FOR SURE!
- 11:14 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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or.. i have a suggestion. why dont we have the y fans throw things on the floor of basketball games TWICE so the game can end EARLY hahahhahahaha and show what real class is all about! i think everyone wants to see that again!
- 11:24 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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@ Chris B.
You still predicting scores?
Take MLH's advice and quit while you are behind.
- 11:42 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Don't kid yourself!
A few disgruntled BYU fans at the MC throwing stuff on the floor to show their disgust at some poor officiating is EXTREMELY mild compared to the boorish behavior exhibited by Utah fans toward BYU coaches, players, and fan CONSTANTLY throughout EVERY BYU-Utah game in RES.
Sorry, but your feeble attempt to equate a delay of game with multiple flagrant personal fouls just isn't working.
- 12:57 p.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Hate to say it, but it's going to be a long season for the Cougs and
Cougs likely to finish 7-5. Best case scenario 8-4, if the defense stays stout and can figure out how to score a couple of points.
Utes likely to finish 4-8. Best case scenario 5-7.
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Unfortunately, your predictions are spot on:
for BYU, best case, 8-4, worst case 7-5
for Utah, best case 5-7, worst case 4-8
Both teams need to prepare new quarterbacks for much tougher schedules next season - not necessarily as starters for the remainder of the season, but both Taysom Hill and Travis Wilson should see significant playing time in every game.
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we scored SIX against a RANKED team, you guys scored SEVEN against an UNRANKED team. Yeah, we didn't have the best game offensively, but to try to poke fun at our 1 point loss and call us pathetic when you were crushed by 30 points is hilarious.
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Utes 27 USC 21
"If we win next week (which I think we will) everyone will saying correctly that Utah is the team to beat in the division."
The Utes are going to be crushed by the Trojans.
The best the Utes can hope for is to finish ahead of Colorado to avoid the PAC south cellar.
Utah 3
Mark it down!
- 2:15 p.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Still BLue after all these years,
Alex Smith and Andrew Bogut, the first time that the #1 picks in the NFL and NBA draft were from the same school.
All BYU fans,
The only reason you have utah fans in this article even making comments about BYU is because a lot of your fans love to troll these utah articles and make stupid comments and evaluations of utah football. Some of your fans don't seem to understand how bragging rights work. We beat you! Its over, its done! We are better than you, and probably will be for a long long time. I understand that the loss to ASU was ugly and the utes looked absolutely terrible, but even if we lose the rest of our games we are still better than you. I don't agree with RedBlood bringing religion into this, but it IS pathetic that your only hope for the year is to see utah lose. Because with each loss your team becomes more and more pathetic
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@Alta Hawk fan
The game Utah played against Alabama was a BCS bowl game, not the BCS championship but still a BCS bowl game. Careful calling out someone else when you don't have your facts straight.
Regarding the upcoming game against USC ... what can I say. Their offense is better than ASU and the Utes will need to be significantly better to compete in this one. We always have at least one road game a year when the team fails to show up, hopefully we have 'that' game out of our system but suspect we might see a couple more lopsided games down the road.
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My son went to K at a charter school. However they reccomended puting him in public so he could have a teacher assistant possibly.
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3. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for about an hour.
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Trans Fat 0 g
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Fresh Air Weekend: Meryl Streep, Yoga
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Stanford Receiver Sues PGA Golfer Toms in Clawback
Professional golfer David Toms was sued by R. Allen Stanford's receiver for $905,087 in profits Toms earned from certificates of deposit sold by Stanford International Bank, the Antiguan bank prosecutors claim was the center of a $7 billion investment fraud.
Toms, who has earned $33 million in his PGA Tour career to date, "previously entered into a sponsorship and endorsement relationship'' with some of Stanford's companies, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in Dallas by Ralph Janvey, Stanford's court-appointed receiver.
Toms and his company "either performed no services for the CD proceeds they received (or) performed services that did not constitute reasonably equivalent value'' in exchange for CD proceeds he received in 2007 and 2008, Janvey said.
Janvey has sued hundreds of other Stanford investors who, like Toms, are considered net winners, in that they received more proceeds than they originally invested in their Stanford CDs. These so-called clawback suits seek to repay more than 20,000 investors by recovering funds from the few investors who cashed out CDs before Stanford's companies were seized by U.S. regulators in February 2009 on allegations of fraud.
Adam Young, Toms's representative, said the golfer wasn't a net winner because he hadn't invested in any Stanford CDs.
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"He never had any Stanford CDs,'' Young said in a telephone interview today. "He had a straight brokerage account, all 100 percent legit, no offshore bank.''
Young said Toms had an endorsement contract with Stanford Financial Group, the financier's broker-dealer unit, from November 2006 through August 2008. The company sponsored "at least a half-dozen other players'' on the pro circuit during the same timeframe, Young said.
The company paid Toms through a brokerage account it opened for him, which was invested in regularly traded securities, Young said. Toms's account was frozen in early 2009 along with other Stanford Financial Group investor accounts when regulators sued Stanford for fraud. The golfer didn't regain access to his money until the frozen accounts were released by court order last year, Young said.
"David was paid $600,000 total, or $300,000 a year, and his final portfolio was worth less than $385,000 at time his assets became 'unfrozen,''' Young said. " The lawsuit for nearly a million is quite an interesting figure.''
Toms's attorney, Robert Dunkelman, of Shreveport, Louisiana, declined in a brief telephone interview to comment on Janvey's lawsuit until he'd had the chance to read it.
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Toms, 44, isn't accused of knowing about or participating in the alleged fraud scheme. Toms is seventh in career PGA Tour earnings and has 12 PGA Tour wins, according to the David Toms Foundation's website.
Stanford, 60, is in jail awaiting trial on allegations he bilked investors of more than $7 billion by paying above-market returns to early buyers of his Antiguan bank certificates with funds taken from later CD buyers. Stanford has denied all wrongdoing and has asked for a two-year delay in his trial, currently set to begin later this month, to give his lawyers time to prepare his defense.
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COLCHESTER A teenager has been sentenced to a little over two years in prison after pleading guilty to a drunken driving crash that killed his passenger last year.
James Companion, 17, of St. Albans, had pleaded guilty to one count of driving under the influence with death resulting.
He was driving on May 25, 2012, when the car crashed into a utility pole and burst into flames, killing his passenger, 25-year-old Tasha Maring, of Colchester.
I am truly sorry for what I did, Companion said at his sentencing Tuesday.
If he had been tried and convicted, he could have faced one to 15 years in prison.
Marings mother, Catherine Raymond, told the judge her daughter was a hardworking mother of a 7-year-old boy. She criticized those at the party who either permitted or encouraged Companion to drink, according to the Burlington Free Press.
I feel sorry for him, she said. He was 16 years old, had to see this whole incident. Had he had not been brought to this gathering, with all these adults, this wouldnt have occurred. He needs counseling in order to be able to go somewhere in his life. And if nobody else wants to help him, I want to help him.
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