That is a vastly over-simplified account. I never recoup the cost of my water or sewer plants in your scenario.
You also ignore the disruption when the state or federal government suddenly ignores these infrastructures. Life sounds very simple in your world. Probably too simple. Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- That is actually a simple problem to solve. You charge new customers the cost of extending service / capacity to them. If a developer wants to put in 50 houses a couple miles out from the current termination point of the service, you charge the developer the full cost of bringing in the services. They in turn will fold that into the resale cost of the houses. If folks won't buy at that price, smart developers won't build. The waste is folks using utilities inefficiently because there is no economic incentive to do otherwise. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
