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March 2011 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Photo Album John Whitehead Create Your Badge In the UK you can now get green mortgages from a mortgage broker. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 05/2005 « Yikes: "Environmental Substance Abuse" | Main | More on price gouging at the pump » March 01, 2011 Dogs and cats living together The entire Eastern Seaboard is alive with talk of incidents of paranormal activity: The Charlotte City Council approved significant changes to water and sewer rates Monday night, with most users paying more and heavy users - many of whom do extensive lawn watering - getting a discount. via www.charlotteobserver.com The discount stems from sewer rates hitting zero after water use hits a threshold. The rates are designed to smooth out revenues for the water managers (who apparently can't seem to save when revenue is high and borrow from their savings when revenue is low). The unintended consequence, of course, is that everyone has an incentive to become heavy water users. Posted by John Whitehead on March 01, 2011 at 07:44 PM in Water Quantity | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Comments You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. I think you've misread the article. The "drop" in charges is relative to where they were. High water users will pay less now then they were before, but more than low water users. It makes sense to reduce sewer charges (that are based on water intake), since most of that water is going outdoors, not down the drain. Oh, and they are not "savings challenged." The addition of fixed fees reduces swings in revenue. That's good, assuming that they are not worried about running out of water (scarcity charges). Yes, welcome to the water tariff nightmare :) Posted by: David Zetland | March 02, 2011 at 08:05 AM The drop in charges is relative to where high water users were, but the marginal price decreased for use between 16 and 24 CCFs (if I'm reading the article correctly). Not everyone has an incentive to become heavy water users, but those with consumption close to 16 CCFs do have an incentive to increase their use. Posted by: kschoengold2 | March 02, 2011 at 12:38 PM The comments to this entry are closed. because Blogads are good for you. Search Google Ads Stats View My Stats Rankings Eastern Economic Journal - Blogometrics Top 50 Economics Blogs — Bankling The Palgrave Econolog - Zeitgeist Top 10 Environmental Economics Blogs EconDirectory | Gongol.com Dont believe what theyre saying LAUGHING! Get some ink, just dont stop blogging. -- not an economist or econ student. some of the gems in the blogosphere, such as. 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