It has been a discouraging few weeks for proponents of a sane economic strategy.  The Government has discovered €750 million in hidden national resources to subsidise energy imports over the next four months, costing the Exchequer almost €200 million per month, with hints of more to come. The world price of oil, hitherto deemed beyond the control of the Irish government, has miraculously been tamed.  It is an affectation by politicians to pretend that costs can be alleviated through state subsidies to prices, which are not the same as costs. Prices to domestic buyers can be set wherever you wish,…

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