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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (131439)2/3/2001 9:51:42 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1577445
 
Ted,

In some places that's not as effective as you might think. S. CA in the early 90's there was a drought and water rationing was imposed. The authorities did exactly what you suggested...when consumption reached a certain level, rates jumped....and when consumption reached another level, stiff fines were imposed. I think water consumption dropped by 20% overall.

20% sounds good to me. I guess it they didn't try to play politics with gradually increasing rates and charged the highest rate for the first galon, the success would have been a higher.

Joe
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