Bill wrote:
>I suggest you look up priceless in a dictionary.
Ok, this is getting pedantic. I know what priceless means and how Michael
was using it. I was pointing out that for much of the world, including the
part I live in and I suspect the part he lives in, water is not priceless at
all. It
In response to Michael, Carl Sorenson wrote:
>Water is not priceless.
I suggest you look up priceless in a dictionary. In the usual sense of the
word (which doesn't mean "not having a price"), Michael is right.
Webster's defines it as "Having a value beyond all price; invaluable."
Bill Potts, C
Carl Sorenson wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> How can someone just waste priceless clean water!
>
> Water is not priceless. It has a price of less than a dollar a liter
> at my grocery store, and a thousand times less from the tap.
> (Although, since water is included in my rent, it is actually free
>
Michael wrote:
>How can someone just waste priceless clean water!
Water is not priceless. It has a price of less than a dollar a liter at my
grocery store, and a thousand times less from the tap. (Although, since
water is included in my rent, it is actually free for me, so perhaps that is
pricel
Yes, in the Netherlands gas is billed to the amount used, in other words, in
cubic metres.
Han
- Original Message -
From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 2003-08-21 17:35
Subject: [USMA:26687] Re: Slightly less off to
A chain of Pubs in Ontario, based on the notorious old unit of keg
measure. Someone must be having fun with this one
Nat
http://www.firkinpubs.com/
http://www.firkinpubs.com/contacts/index.html
UK bills:
water = measured and billed in cubic metres
electricity = measured and billed in kWh
gas = measured in cubic metres, billed in kWh
(some UK gas meters measure in cubic feet, but these are being removed and
replaced with metric ones as they wear out)
Netherlands:
Is gas measured *and*
