At 02:08 am 12/05/2006 -0500, you wrote: >IMO, as long as work, money, and energy consumption, are culturally linked >the "too cheap to meter" dream will never be realised. >Even if energy becomes 100 times less expensive, we, as individuals, >will find ourselves consuming 100 times more energy. > >Harry
Not so Harry. There are limits to the amount one can consume, whether it be food, drink or entertainment. Water is "too cheap to meter", in Britain at any rate. I have a free bus pass for the whole of Greater London but the maximum I could use it would be 24 hours a day. Frank
