You can still use pricing. In water for example you can use block pricing. Free water for the first X blocks and then increasing price.
The same could be done for electricity and other things.
The same could be done for electricity and other things.
But the free-market dogmatists aren't interested in using markets and prices effectively, they are interested in their self-concept as people who really "get it" and understand all the complex dynamics of economics. Once you let messy ideas like externalities and market-interference/regulation like block pricing and on and on and on… this becomes very threatening to their identity as it pushes them toward having to say "gosh, it's so complex, and I don't understand it all".