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Article #8707Re: Consumers: This greed may spread across the USA
From: unidextr
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:11
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:11
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:54:33 -0500, brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown) wrote: >If it encourages any conservation at all, it will be enough to get >through next week. > >Look at the rise in gas prices: people grumbled a lot, then went on >driving just as much as they had before. Why would we expect >electricity consumption to be any different? Efforts to conserve water during a period of drought in New Jersey were so effective the Water Companies had to get a rate increase because of the lost profits the lower consumption of water caused! (The governor at the time was Republican Tom Kean and the major Water Company in the state was the Elizabethtown Water Company, founded by his family, and headed by his brother Robert. (Elizabethtown Water Company was purchased by Thames Water Company (UK).
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