While I, and many others, personally want a second fuel distributor and a second concrete plant in Haines, simply adding a second producer doesn’t guarantee a better deal. Consider a three-mile stretch of hot, sandy beach: a lone lemonade stand centers itself at 1.5 miles. Instead, they cluster at 1.49 and 1.51 miles to capture their competitors’ customers, leaving peripheral beachgoers stranded in the same manner under one lemonade stand. Haines could adopt a hypothetical “Competitive Market Model” inspired by a common prosperity framework. Introducing dynamic market planning to Haines would create a floor for quality and a ceiling for prices, forcing private producers to actually compete against a community interest, ensuring economic growth directly improves quality of life for all of us.