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To: Sam who wrote (1053)	4/16/2014 9:28:46 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26758

Sam, OT ** Kirk lives in the SF Bay area and windsurfs in the South Bay - as he has often mentioned. PS: I find it useful to remind myself that I don't have to reply to every post I disagree with. To make abstinence easier, I even un-follow certain boards for a week or more at times.

To: Sam who wrote (1053)	4/17/2014 10:18:18 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26758

As others pointed out, I live in the SF Bay Area. Our water is from Hetch Hetchy dam North of Yosemite. Some of it comes from ground water too... The water would run out rivers exiting the SF Bay into the ocean but it is mixed with salt water by then so we trap some at the source to have very clean water. Most of us in N. California pay about 10x per volume what the farmers pay to grow food that is shipped to other states and countries. For example, my last water bill was $47 for 4 CCF (low since I turn garden water off in the winter when they measure how much you use for the sewer charges) and it was $85 in the summer and fall for 10 CCF. How much do you pay for a similar amount of water? I'd gladly pay a bit extra for food to not have to subsidize the water to grow food for the rest of the World (we send a ton of rice to Asia...) Almond milk is a huge hit with vegans and heath nuts (I use it mostly now) but it takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond... Of course, it takes a lot of water to raise a cow to get milk too... so it would be interesting to compare water needed for a half gallon of almond milk vs cows milk. FWIW, I own GE and think it is a good water play....

To: Sam who wrote (1053)	4/17/2014 10:23:16 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26758

BTW, many of us in N. California would be happy to send you S. Ca if you took the Dogers. You'd get the porn industry as a bonus. Hollywood already does a lot of movies on locations out of the area to save on costs and taxes. One of the biggest battles here is N. Ca. fighting S. Ca attempts to take our water where we prefer the extra fresh water to flow freely down the streams to protect our Salmon and similar fishing industries and species.

To: Sam who wrote (1053)	4/17/2014 10:47:25 AM
From: robert b furman	Respond to of 26758

Hi Sam, My bet is most of the full service conveyor type washes employ well over 50 people. Their hours open to the public are long and most employees (short of a manager or two) are not allowed to work over 40 hours. With the minimum wage looking to be upped by many politicians in many states - it will become even more strictly enforced. My bet is that most employees will be restricted by whatever hour threshold is required to keep them in a temporary status. That will be OK as they would then make less income - get more from the government in rebates, and as Pelosi says be able to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. What a POS logic that is. We're probably just going to differ on this one Sam. Bob