Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: TimF who wrote (328609)	3/15/2007 3:07:08 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1573812

There is a great deal of focus on household use because that's where there is the greatest flexibility in consumption. There is great flexibility in consumption in all forms of use over time. Remove the subsidies provided to non-residential uses and they will go down over time, and that decrease in use could be more than any possible decrease in residential use (it could even be more than the total of residential use). The water was provided by the gov't for reasons that may seem impropriate now. The water continues to be provided for the common good and because of contractual obligations. Irrigation is absolutely necessary. In fact, irrigation is an absolute necessary for any farmlands that are east of the Sierra Nevadas of CA and the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest. Some of the land probably shouldn't be farmed, and wouldn't be farmed if farmers didn't receive water subsidies. In other cases the land would still be farmed but more efficient irrigation methods would be used. The San Joaquin has climatic conditions that exist only in two other places in the US. It is important farmland even if it doesn't fit your capitalistic imperative.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next