Water
prices to agriculture are amazingly low. I pulled a number off an
Alabama
It also suggests that water is
incredibly cheap. The high end municipal price is around the current cost
of desalination, roughly $2/thousand gallons. If we started to pay the
real, unsubsidized cost of water, and allowed people to sell their water rights,
we might find we have plenty of water.
-Mike
Oliker
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Date: Wed, 16
Aug 2006 18:31:39 -0400
From: "Martin
C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] My biggest complaint about ethanol as
automobile
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To: The Friday
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Bill Eldridge
wrote:
>
> Sorry to
switch subjects, but from Steve Boyan:
>
>
I was wrong. If I had known that for every pound of beef I did
not
>
eat, I would save anywhere from 2,500 to 5,000 gallons of water,
I
>
would have been moved.
Why doesn't a
pound of beef cost more than 2500 gallons of water?
Wouldn't ADM
(or whoever cares for the cow) have to pay for that much water? To make a
profit, wouldn't they have to charge more than their
costs?
Confused,
Martin
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