Imagine every bit of food you ate cost the same as the most expensive. The caviar goes up, and suddenly no one can afford to eat.
Why don't we use less caviar and/or also suspend the stupid rule about food price?
Owners of food businesses getting paid caviar prices for delivering scotch eggs. No, let's wait till some people die, because I'm getting rich.
Which seems relevant when people are talking about society collapsing and people freezing to death. And some people have strong financial incentives to not fix it.
Right wing governments really don't like that idea. See their reaction to COVID, they really heavily depend on the idea that the people with all the money 'earned it'.
Much easier to blame renewables.
It's always the renewables isnt it. They kill birds and give you ear cancer and don't even really work. Not like those superb fossil fuels that have no drawbacks at all.
Who wants to listen to experts when you can just create a crisis by ignoring them and then blame it on the experts you didn't listen to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_order
> The historic methodology for economic dispatch was developed to manage fossil fuel burning power plants, relying on calculations involving the input/output characteristics of power stations.