Is the Price for Community Choice Electricity Reasonable?

Published on January 2, 2024

Commentary It’s impressive how many different preferences people can have. Although bottled water is ubiquitous today, in the late 1970s, those living a conspicuous lifestyle purchased bottled water, like Perrier, to show off their success and affluence, while emphasizing healthy living practices and hygiene. Most business offices had a water cooler and were willing to pay the extra costs for a preference over tap water. One wonders if people, when told that one-third of the tap water came from fresh mountain streams, would pay a premium if they were to receive that water? Of course, there’s no conceivable way to build the infrastructure to exclusively deliver that spring water to homes or businesses on demand. But they could rest in the knowledge that they were participating in a program to reach the goal of all tap water coming from natural mountain springs....

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