On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:47:13PM -0400, Brian Lloyd wrote: > Dan Lanciani wrote: > > minimum billing amount comparable to the old flat rate--except it covered only > > the first 2000 gallons per billing interval (where a billing interval is defined > > by when the city decides to read the meters, approximately every three months). > > Now in effect we have a flat-rate system with a penalty for using more than a > > nominal amount of water. Of course, the idea all along was (retroactively) to > > encourage water conservation and had nothing to do with increasing the city's > > income... > > Not to get too far afield, but I pay $0.12 (right twelve cents) per gallon for water > here. Let me tell you, it makes me very conscious of saving water!
Hell, we're already too far afield. :-) 8 gallons to the penny here. :-} There's a new brand of bottled water in the local Barnes & Noble's: from *Fiji*. Anyone want to tell me why the bottles are *square*? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
