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by Phil_Latio 198 days ago
This argument, namely that politics can lower the price (by emitting extra certificates) when it gets too high, contradicts the whole reason for the mechanism in the first place: They claim a free market can find the right price better than politicians. But then they interfer anyway?

The price will rise much larger than a dumb, fixed increase-schedule would. Because the "market" wants it's profit.