• Re: $2.28 for a gallon of water

    From jack roth@21:1/5 to VegasJerry on Fri Mar 3 18:54:38 2023
    On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 12:15:34 PM UTC-8, VegasJerry wrote:
    On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 6:22:50 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 8:09:28 AM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I don't remember what it used to be, but it was less than $2.28. And this was at a discount market, not the gas station mini-mart.
    BTW- stock up on rice. The rice fields in Nor Cal are being decimated by the drought.
    Certain water intensive crops need to be banned in the Southwest.
    .

    Who decides which?

    I got an idea. We start by crops that are water intensive yet being farmed in the AZ desert. Like...Alfalfa which IMO has no business being grown in Arizona.

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  • From VegasJerry@21:1/5 to jack roth on Sat Mar 4 07:27:55 2023
    On Friday, March 3, 2023 at 6:54:42 PM UTC-8, jack roth wrote:
    On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 12:15:34 PM UTC-8, VegasJerry wrote:
    On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 6:22:50 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 8:09:28 AM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12:45:28 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I don't remember what it used to be, but it was less than $2.28. And this was at a discount market, not the gas station mini-mart.
    BTW- stock up on rice. The rice fields in Nor Cal are being decimated by the drought.
    Certain water intensive crops need to be banned in the Southwest.
    .

    Who decides which?
    I got an idea. We start by crops that are water intensive yet being farmed in the AZ desert. Like...Alfalfa which IMO has no business being grown in Arizona.
    .

    Good idea, except the meat packing industry has already bought the correct politicians and have protected themselves against that. As I showed in another post, California tomato farmers must cut back on acreage while alfalfa farmers don't.

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