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Article #232Re: California's Opportunity to Achieve Improved Flood Control
From: John McCarthy
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00
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There are a lot of sunk costs in the water projects that are called subsidies. Some of the allocations of costs when dams were built are challenged. For example, making a lake for power boats was called promoting recreation. Now the correct don't like power boats. It is not clear that current costs of distributing water are being subsidized. Does anyone have evidence on this point? -- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305 http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 108860,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gid108860,public X-Google-Thread: 102cad,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cad,public X-Google-Thread: fe1ad,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe1ad,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: f84dc,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf84dc,public X-Google-Thread: f9e58,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e58,public X-Google-Thread: 105030,2373d8dbf9f6fee5 X-Google-Attributes: gid105030,public From: jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) Subject: Re: California's Opportunity to Achieve Improved Flood Control Date: 1997/02/13 Message-ID: <JMC.97Feb12224216@Steam.stanford.edu> X-Deja-AN: 218453815 References: <rpenny-ya023580000202971509530001@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU Newsgroups: ca.water,rec.boats.paddle,alt.org.audubon,alt.org.earth-first,alt.org.sierra-club,ca.general,ca.news,ca.environment,sci.geo.hydrology,sci.geo.rivers+lakes,sci.environment,sci.engr.civil