Under that assumption, which has only changed slightly since 2007, it is therefore incumbent for Republicans now to continue raising electricity prices on poor people and other captured ratepayers — because North Carolina’s Super-Strong Solar Industry cannot survive without exploiting people who have no choice in electricity providers.

To paraphrase economists who’ve looked at this charade up close, if House Republicans believe they have overturned the fundamental basis for microeconomic theory, they should specify why.

Mostly because it would be funny listening to them attempt to scrounge up a plausible fiction. Their motivation is no mystery.