No, he just adds $$$ to slip rates. Very fair. It costs $$$ to run a
marina even if they offer no services.

Doug

"WaIIy" wrote in message
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On 2 Oct 2003 15:47:07 -0500, anonymous wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:09:14 -0400, Vito said:

How that equates to charging
non-users instead of users escapes me.

Your frame of reference is too narrow. What Peggy was talking about was
charging boats that use electricity at cost. But one cost of any business
is
profit. If the marina operator doesn't make a profit he doesn't operate a
marina. If the price he charges for electricity to some is limited, he
has
to make his profit by charging everybody more for something else. Hence
the
effect is that everybody gets charged for the profit element that would
have
come from the electrical usage charge if it weren't limited.

This is bizarre logic.

I guess if he doesn't sell gas, spark plugs, air, ice or whatever, he
needs to just add $$$ to everything else until an arbitrary profit is
obtained.