The problem with that is there's an enormous difference between removing particular legal restrictions and creating a genuine free market.
On 8/18/06, Mike Oliker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Water prices to agriculture are amazingly low. I pulled a number off an > Alabama website (complaining that subsidized water in the west is killing AL > ag): $5-15 /acre foot for agriculture, $200-$600/acre foot for > municipalities. There are 326,000 gallons in an acre-foot of water, so 1 > thousand gallons costs $0.015 to $0.03 for farmers, while it costs $0.60 to > $1.80 for city folk. The cost of meat would then have to carry only four to > twelve cents per pound at 2500 gallons/pound. Even at low end city prices, > it would only add $1.50/pound. Meat producers may be covering the twelve > cents. > > http://www.atmos.uah.edu/public/msu/Ag-Blackbelt-Com.ppt > > 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 > > Message: 1 > 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 > fuel > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > 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 > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
