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\"Esso\"<\/a>Imperial Oil has been having problems with premature ignition. Their gasoline seems to be setting fires at a couple of their refineries – Sarnia in December<\/a> and Nanticoke<\/a> last week. Add CN’s rail strike into the mix and you end up with shortages of gasoline throughout Ontario.<\/p>\n

Line-ups at service centres, sold-out signs and rising prices have become familiar scenes. Truckers are calling for action. The Ontario Energy Minister has pledged<\/a> to keep an eye on the prices.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, he will resist the temptation to intervene.<\/p>\n

As tough as it is on all of us at the pumps, the marketplace is working just fine on its own. Despite reduced supply, there is competition for fuel retailing and the stores are doing the right thing when demand outstrips supply. Higher prices helps cut down on demand and creates the right incentives to find and fund alternate sources, such as trucking in tankers from other areas. Government intervention and controls will only distort the proper working of the marketplace.<\/p>\n

Is there a lesson to be applied to wireless telecommunications services – or other telecom services, for that matter?<\/p>\n

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be taking a look at some of the issues associated with the consultation<\/a> leading to the AWS spectrum auction. Among the most important issues being considered are incentives, such as a new entrant set-aside and mandated roaming, to stimulate the creation of a new wireless competitor.<\/p>\n

Incentives are a form of subsidy for the new entrant. I won’t presume that such concessions are necessarily wrong, but we need to be clear about their implications.<\/p>\n

As loyal readers are aware, I have never hesitated to critique the current mobile market participants. However, as attractive as it may seem to increase the level of competition, can government intervene in the workings of the marketplace without unintended consequences? I’ll have more thoughts later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imperial Oil has been having problems with premature ignition. Their gasoline seems to be setting fires at a couple of their refineries – Sarnia in December and Nanticoke last week. Add CN’s rail strike into the mix and you end up with shortages of gasoline throughout Ontario. Line-ups at service centres, sold-out signs and rising …<\/p>\n

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