Michael wrote: >How can someone just waste priceless clean water! Water is not priceless. It has a price of less than a dollar a liter at my grocery store, and a thousand times less from the tap. (Although, since water is included in my rent, it is actually free for me, so perhaps that is priceless in that way...)
On another topic: Chris, I agree with your statement "IMHO, there's nothing wrong with using kW.h in this context. This energy unit is pretty ubiquitous and is at least based on SI." In yesterday's Deseret News was an AP article with this paragraph: The average price of milk reached a low of about $10.90 per hundredweight--about 11 and a half gallons--in May before recovering, and stood at $11.80 in July. Milk is commonly measured by hundredweight in the industry. And in today's paper: Private landowners in the San Juan Basin leased rights of way across their land to the gas pipeline companies for between $432 and $455 annually for each rod--a measurement equaling 16.5 feet. Indian tribes leased their land for between $140 and $575 a year for the same length. The leases for the Navajo individual landowners provided for just $25 to $40 annually. Ok, it seems really strange to me that they are using rods and hundredweight. I guess it is evidence of a deep conservatism among a lot of people. Carl
