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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Subject: Re: NEWS: True Costs of Commercial Nuclear Power -- The Economic Failure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.223315.11127@michael.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:33:15 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.170003.18162@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan21.125508.8004@ke4zv.uucp> <51905@seismo.CSS.GOV>
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- In article <51905@seismo.CSS.GOV> stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.125508.8004@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >> In article <51893@seismo.CSS.GOV> stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
-
- >> tax. BTW police departments are net revenue generators in our state.
- >> The costs of policing the roads are more than offset by the fines
- >> collected.
- >
- >They must write a lot of tickets. One officer with a police cruiser and
- >radar costs about $200,000 a year (salary, benefits, car depreciation,
- >maintainance and gas, radar depreciation, maintainance and calibration,
- >distributed cost of officer training, etc.). If the average ticket is
- >$100, he'd have to write 2000 a year. Figuring he spends half his time
- ^^^^^
- This is way low. It is about $86 for the 'low end' ticket (65 in a 55,
- which I got last year... 8-{ ) and up to $1000+ for a DUI.
-
- >in court, then he'd have to write 2 an hour while on patrol. That's pretty
- >easy, but to do it constantly must be incredible. Then again, if that's
-
- Pretty easy? Heck, I've seen officers do 4 tickets in one stop!
- (Also, unfortunately, I was one of the 4 ...). And it took him
- about 15 minutes to do the lot of us.
-
- >all he does, he's probably pretty good at it.
-
- You got it!
-
- >Denver has the second smogiest air in the nation behind LA. I don't
- >know the factors contributing to that, however. I've never been to Denver.
- >(People have this clean image of Colorado, but Denver is smogier than
- >Pittsburg, NYC, DC, etc.)
-
- The factors contributing to it are the basin it sits in and the
- mountains around them.
-
- --
-
- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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