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Ponce
5th September 2014, 05:25 PM
About four of five years ago I wrote, for the first time......."Learn Spanish and Chinese and buy water stock"...I can only wonder how many of this so called "rich" people do own water stocks....you must see what is inside of the circle by going outside the circle.

Something else, with the "rich" paying a fine for the water that they overuse how is this suppose to help the poor get water? how will the city use that money?
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(Alissa Walker) Although 81 percent of the state is experiencing an “extreme drought,” for many parts of California there is no apparent water shortage. Visit the highest-income neighborhoods and you’ll see lush lawns and sparkling fountains defiantly sucking our lifeblood from the Earth. Apparently, the rich will do whatever it takes to keep themselves moist.

To find out how celebs manage to remain so hydrated, Politico visits Montecito, a tiny, tony city just southeast of Santa Barbara. Montecito is famous for many reasons, including having some of the highest real estate values in the country. That, paired with its proximity to L.A., makes it a haven for celebrities, who have clustered their estates along the idyllic coast.

But the most famous Montecito resident of all is Oprah. Ms. Winfrey owns at least two homes here, and last year her water bill almost topped $125,000. This year, it’s about half of that, thanks to the dramatic measures she’s taken to curb her use of the city water supply. But that doesn’t means she’s cutting back on water consumption. Noooo. She and many other celebs are now having their water imported:

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These days, tankers can be seen barreling down Montecito’s narrow country roads day and night, ferrying up to 5,000 gallons of H20 to some of the world’s richest and thirstiest folks…

…Bob Hazard, a retired hotel CEO who writes a news column for the Montecito Journal, says he would not be surprised if some of the town’s wealthiest are “paying as much as $15,000 a month for trucked-in water.”

In response to the drought, and perhaps because so many residents are shipping their H2O from god knows where, Montecito was able to cut its water usage by 48 percent by laying down some pretty strict conservation efforts, like prohibiting homeowners from refilling pools or watering their polo fields.

This includes hefty fines for water wasters, although it’s not clear if that’s actually deterring anyone from changing their behavior:

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In May, 837 defiant—or careless—residents coughed up $532,000 in penalties, or a collective overage of about 13 million gallons of town water. The beachfront Biltmore Four Seasons was whacked with a penalty of $48,000 for using about one million gallons over its allotment in April, while a nearby private home sucked up a $30,000 fine for the month for guzzling an extra 750,000 gallons. The district receives about 30 appeals a week. Those who do not pay their bills receive shut off notices— and about 400 were sent out in the last year. The Montecito Water District, which is particularly discreet about its patrons, admits it will rake in close to $4 million in fines this year."

I see the same thing happening here in L.A. The city is under similar water restrictions as Montecito, and you can report anyone for breaking the rules. Yet as you drive west through the neighborhoods of Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, and Brentwood, the lawns miraculously grow greener. I actually tried in vain the other day to find at least one lawn which had been sacrificed for the greater good and could not. If you see one, please send me a photo.

With the vast acres of property that all these higher-income homes occupy, these estates could collectively have the greatest impact on water conservation. And wouldn’t a celebrity’s parched yellow lawn, captured by the paparazzi, be a great way to get other homeowners to jump on the bandwagon? That’s not likely to happen. As in Montecito, they’ll probably just keep on truckin’. Most of the people in these neighborhoods are simply too rich to care.

EE_
5th September 2014, 05:33 PM
Celebrities and Hollywood liberals are all for conservation and protecting the environment...as long as it doesn't affect them.

BrewTech
5th September 2014, 05:40 PM
Celebrities and Hollywood liberals are all for conservation and protecting the environment...as long as it doesn't affect them.

Biggest bunch of fucking hypocrites in existence. Wanna be a good human? Ask "what would a celebrity do?" Then do the opposite. In a pinch, "banker" or "politician" may be substituted for "celebrity".

willie pete
5th September 2014, 06:10 PM
they have the money so they do it, I'm not taking their side, just saying. The rich have always done that, reminds me of a story about Ross Perot I read a long time ago; basically his mother wanted the old house they'd lived in back (it'd been sold at some point in time) So.........Perot just goes and buys it back at whatever cost, it wasn't anything great, it was a brick house and during the time it'd been painted white, his mother wanted it back to it's original red brick, so Perot had a crew out there trying to remove the white paint off the brick, after several days the head of the work crew went back to Perot and said we're sorry Mr. Perot but it's impossible to get that paint off the bricks, So Perot says "well then......take all the bricks out and turn them around" :D

Dogman
5th September 2014, 06:12 PM
I'm mad too eddy!

EE_
5th September 2014, 06:28 PM
I'm mad too eddy!

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Libertytree
5th September 2014, 06:31 PM
You'd never read a headline that said poor people buy their water and have it hauled in...just sayin.

As far as Perot is concerned...if you were able and that's what your mom wanted all of ya would do it too.

gunDriller
5th September 2014, 06:44 PM
13 miles per gallon for a diesel Cummins pulling a dual axle trailer. trailer 10,000 pounds overall.


i asked EVERYBODY about their mileage once when i was renting a truck.

Saia with 80,000 pounds. 6 1/2 miles per gallon.

But a truck with 28,000 pounds GVWR can get 7 miles per gallon.


moral of story - Cummins/ trailer combo wins when it comes to hauling heavy stuff like water.

8000 pounds of water is 1000 gallons. 300 miles each way, round trip.

600 miles, 650 miles, that's 50 gallons, $4 a gallon. $200 for fuel costs. $15K to $60K for the rig.

i don't know man.

whose going to pay $1 a gallon for water - then you only make $200 for a 650 mile round trip ?!


i think it makes more sense to own land down there, and in Oregon, and to quietly borrow some water from your Oregon property for your California property :)

palani
6th September 2014, 05:45 AM
quietly borrow some water from your Oregon property for your California property :)

I heard once of a man who had a ranch in Colorado and one adjoining in Nebraska. He got in big trouble by piping water from one property to another.

As to the ethics of the rich and famous ... back in an early gas crisis I recall hearing of John Denver planting a large gas tank on his property and public opinion making him dig it back up. Then there is Al Gore and his energy hog home. The rich and famous are not immune to public opinion but believe money substitutes for morals.

midnight rambler
6th September 2014, 07:22 AM
I recall hearing of John Denver planting a large gas tank on his property and public opinion making him dig it back up.

Should have kept his mouth shut.

Ponce
6th September 2014, 08:31 AM
Down here across from me and to the right and the next house to the right had a 150 feet water hose tie to my water tube coming in from the creek , their hose was tie to mine of 12 years and they never told me about......I was maintaining mine and THEIR water source for all that time........the grow marijuana (really nice field) and now they have a water truck, 8,000 gallons, come in once every two weeks to fill their water tank......had they told me about the water situation and paid me something they would had saved around $800.00 per load... or $400.00 per week.

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