I use to work for the water department. At first they educated, then supplied water conservation devices, once the water consumption started to fall, they jacked up the water rates.
Worked at Turkey point nuclear power house. We had 5K men on the payroll and payroll was 6M a week. FPL went to the public utilities commission and begged for a rate increase. They didn’t get what they asked for, however, once they got it we got laid off.
If they cost of labor goes down prices will remain the same.
Sure. Not long back when I was in CA, while they were rolling out the red carpet for millions of water consuming illegals, at the same time told everyone to conserve on water. When everyone cut back about 10%, they simply jacked up the water rates.
Hard to believe people just keep taking this bull s**t.