Posted on 02/23/2008 4:49:44 PM PST by americanophile
Well not exactly, it was over a meat supply contract to the US govt....:^)
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NM-LincolnCountyWar.html
..and boiled down to a war between an Irish and an English store owner... nothing new under the sun...:^)
Was just in Lincoln, NM last summer...:^)
Why should I choose my words? That’s a condescending statement to say the least.
Mayor Oscar Goodman=Stupid North East Lib
NO more calls, please.
We have a winner!
Why not just let who owns the rights sell the water to the highest bidder at a free-market price?
The side benefit is that lettuce farming in the desert might diminish, and we ended up buying lettuce grown in Mexico—so we won’t “need” to have the illegals come here to pick it.
My bad for not making clear that this was in jest, just pointing out our good Mayor's past mob ties......
Sorry.
...but who “owns” the river?? That’s the whole point, and precisely why we have a federally brokered water compact.
...but who “owns” the river?? That’s the whole point, and precisely why we have a federally brokered water compact.
Mac, it was clear that you were speaking in jest. No reason to apologize.
The result could be the abandonment of one the most important agricultural regions in the U.S. - the Imperial Valley, which relies almost totally on river water.
Whoever values the water more will have it, and there will never be a “shortage,” just higher prices.
Maybe the Bellagio will continue its fountains, but many LV homeowners will replace their lawns to avoid $500/mo water bills.
It’s all about Basic Economics.
Good point.
Another point that I wanted to make in my earlier post but forget to...
Another reason that California needs to start taking water out the Pacific Ocean is that action will lower the ocean levels, world wide, right? (oh man, that will drive the eco-nazi's bonkers!).
But that is actually doing the world a huge favor. By lowering the ocean level's, we are making room for the extra water from all those melting glaciers, right?
No more worry about flooding the low lying errors across the globe. Problem solved.
Now, I just need AlGore to sign off on it........
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, I’m just playing Devil’s advocate:
What about lost jobs, etc., when the Valley reverts to desert? What about the national security arguments of outsourcing our food production? What about the health concerns of having 3rd world nations without health and safety codes growing our food?
The State water engineer is still in their way....for a while.
>>What about lost jobs, etc., when the Valley reverts to desert?
Better than the alternative of communities without water they would pay more for to survive.
>>What about the national security arguments of outsourcing our food production?
There’s plenty of land for food to sustain the population, and I think we’ll do fine if there were a lettuce embargo.
>What about the health concerns of having 3rd world nations without health and safety codes growing our food?
Inspections, of course. It’s not as if we don’t already import plenty of food from Mexico and Central America.
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