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To: ManyMoose who wrote (161228)3/22/2006 11:02:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793955
 
Maybe Yosemite isn't National Forest, but here's some comment I trust: jewishworldreview.com

There have also been major blunders in fauna management on federal land.

I bet I could make a profit with Yosemite too if I didn't have to compete to buy it and just had to cover costs or get a 10% return on some low assessed market value.

Of course water should be sold to the highest bidder. Getting enough to drink is cheap enough. Water should be on the auction block like other commons natural resources. Water is only 1c a litre if produced by desalination, and it only takes 4 litres of drinking water a day [4c] to keep somebody going. It's not as though "poor" people wouldn't be able to buy water at 1c a litre wholesale price, say 10c a litre retail. 30c a day x 400 = $120 a year.

Mqurice