> Government regulation is a lousy solution, as it will allocate the resource based on politics, not practicality, efficiency, or common sense. You see this as

> Government regulation is a lousy solution, as it will allocate the resource based on politics, not practicality, efficiency, or common sense. You see this as well in California - regulating showers with ineffectual results. 9 out of 10 times those kind of regulations are the result of free market money lobbying its way to oblivion. Ineffective government in combination with wealth exploitation. Removing the wealth from the equation (like you propose) requires fighting that first, far easier to fight long showers.