On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:33:44 -0000, ":::Jerry::::"
wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message


That could very easily be made more competitive by means of trading
disposal credits,

No, all you are doing is creating yet another bureaucratic machine, how can
you swap providers other than laying new pipe ?!


It's perfectly simple. There is competition in the electricity and
gas supply industries which is achieved perfectly well without the
need for additional cable and pipework infrastucture.

THe same principle can be applied to water supply and waste disposal.

Wast disposal credits are already a traded commodity so there is no
reason why the same principles used there could not be used as the
vehicle for water supply and waste disposal.

Competition is more than who you pay money to.


It is also the ability of your immediate supplier to negotiate the
most favourable transport arrangements with the infrastructure and
production owners. This can be achieved by introducing competition
at the point of sale to the consumer.


With electricity and gas the generating and
supply capacity is from a limited range of sources, and delivery
mechanisms but these are separated from the consumer and he can choose
between different retail suppliers.

He can chose to pay somone differnt for his electricity, the electricity
still comes from the same source company(s) and is carried by the same power
lines.

Competition is more than who you pay money to.

It is also the ability of the retail supplier to negotiate the best
deal he can get from the infrastructure owners and commodity
suppliers. This is achieved by commercial ability on the part of the
retail supplier including running a low cost and efficient
administration. The element of competition here has made a big
improvement to consumer cost.



Exactly the same can be done for
disposal.


Not when you HAVE to use the services that already exist.

Of course it can. There are multiple elements to utility
businesses. In some it is practical and desirable to introduce
competition, in others it is not practical.

You need to think outside the box.



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..andy

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