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John Higdon wrote:
> 
> The fact of the matter is that those who use more pay more. There is no real
> rationalization to gouge them further. How about a multi-tiered structure on
> gasoline (accounted for with a smart card), or perhaps on scarce food items,
> such as strawberries in a bad year?

I thought that was the whole idea behind conservation incentives, charge em
more if they use more, give em credits if they use less.  As for gas and
strawberries, IIRC, when those are scarce the prices go way up, and there
has been rationing and a resultant higher cost black market in both at one
time or another in our history.  More or less equivalent, except not an
official "tier system."  So yes, if the intent is to strongly encourage
people to use less gas and eat fewer berries...

> I MIGHT support a multi-tiered system if there were allowances. For
> instance, I would be perfectly happy to get business service at my
> home...but the rules as constituted do not allow it. It is a residence; if I
> happen to make my living within those walls...tough!
> 
> I wonder what rate the "live/work" lofts get in SF.

I don't know, but it seems to me that it should be feasible to establish
a system that allows people with business licenses to declare their homes
their places of work and to add whatever their "baseline" tier rate at
an outside office would be to their homes.  Of course, if your home
business involves the use of arc welding, you'd likely be going into a
higher tier anyway, compared to someone whose business related consumption
consists of a couple dozen pieces of computer equipt.