No Amount of Profligate use Will Go Punished: Letter to SFPUC GM Asking for “More Agressive Block Rate Pricing” (Aguanomics)
(April 16, 2009, Aguanomics)
SFPUC’s announcement of rate hikes to begin in July 2009 are so modest as to make me think that no amoung of profligate use will go punished. Please consider the following, submitted as Comment to the Chronicle’s March 5 article, “On Coping With the Drought”:
“For every conscientous consumer, operating on personal principles and/or economic concerns, there are others who don’t practice household water conservation, because they both don’t hold such principles and can easily afford the currently trivial cost difference for profligate use (SFPUC proposed a mere 30-cent hike per 748 gal for mid-2009). Let’s support more aggressive bloc rate pricing once consumers exceed a comfortable baseline use limit.
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