<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I agree, we should just let them all die of dehydration. What idiots choose to live in the desert anyway? :P<br><br>We should give them water for real cheap like a 50 cents a gallon. Then when they get really hooked, raise the price to like $100 a gallon. We will get rich. Yeah, that's the ticket! :)<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/13/09, Tom Hansen <i><thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho Senate Approves Water-Sale Bill<br>To: jampot@roadrunner.com, mattd2107@hotmail.com, thansen@moscow.com, idahotom@hotmail.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 6:16 PM<br><br><pre>Unlike garbage and sewage that are also considered
infrastructure . . . <br>water is a public utility.<br><br>It is my opinion that tighter controls should be established, and <br>enforced, concerning the "sale" of our public utilities.<br><br>Once Idaho establishes the precedent of selling water outside its state <br>boundaries, where will it end? Nevada? California (who tried and failed <br>back in the 60s/70s to obtain Idaho water)?<br><br>I believe it was Steed . . . (or was it Krauss?) . . . that referred to <br>the sale of Idaho water as nothing more than a matter of interstate <br>commerce. Maybe if we were discussing the sale of widgets between two <br>private entities, NOT the sale of a public utility between a private <br>company and a public entity. That argument doesn't (if you will excuse <br>the pun) hold water.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br><br>> "What millions?"<br>> <br>> "What infrastructure?"<br>> <br>> If I may, that would be the 9.1 Million dollar bond
that Whitman Co, <br>floated <br>> and that is referred to in the preliminary agreement between Hawkins <br>> companies LLC and Whitman Co. to provide water and sewer service. (gas <br>and <br>> electricity are already in place) In other words, infrastructure.<br>> <br>><br>g<br><br>---------------------------------------------<br>This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br> http://www.fsr.com/<br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the <span>Palouse</span> since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>