thunderstruckhd
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Be carfull what you wish for. Watch the cost of electricity to go thru the roof when we need electricity for our cars...
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Deen
Vancouver, WA
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res08hao wrote:My Wall Street Journal today reported two interesting items for RVers. One is that a market analyst predicted the price of a barrel of oil will be $80.00 "late next year", and two, GE Money has stopped providing consumer loans to 3 industries: Coachmen, Thor, and Monaco.
They will end in August. You quoted three COMPANIES, not "industries".
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Deen
Vancouver, WA
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markbrumbaugh wrote:Domestic electricity comes from natural gas or coal. Not here, most of ours is hydro electric, no coal at all and a few years ago they decommissioned the only nuclear reactor in the area. BAD MOVE in my book! Now they are going to need the capacity and it's gone with no plans to replace it. Our local PUD had to put in a natural gas generating plant for extra power now that the nuclear plant is gone. Doesn't seem like a good thing to me.
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Deen
Vancouver, WA
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kjames90755 wrote:IIRC hydro-electric provides some 15-25% of electricity for several large regions of our country. Here in the NW it's almost 100% although wind turbines are being built and shipped in to supplement the hydro power.
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Hoseman
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I was told that gas will hit 10 dollars per how do you spell alternate fuels.
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H4Adventures
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Nothing is going to change until AT LEAST November...then it really doesn't matter because if oil drops to 80 a barrel, gas will still be where it is because this is just the "normal" ebb and flow...it "ebb's until we quit whining" before our money starts "flowing" back into their pockets.
Besides, if it wasn't for global warming we would never be in this predicament..
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CSpenceFLY
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downtheroad wrote:If and I say If we do see $80 per barrel... I hope that end consumer fuel prices also reflect this drop.
For some reason, this kind of stuff rarely "trickles" down to us bottom feeders.
That is the true question. We will never see the prices at the pump reflect a drop in crude like that.
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Cox89XJ
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Global Warming???? I thought we were going out of the Ice Age for the past 20 or 30 centuries. If one of Al's friends gets in office, you'll get even more restrictions on our fuel.
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H4Adventures
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Cox89XJ wrote:Global Warming???? I thought we were going out of the Ice Age for the past 20 or 30 centuries. If one of Al's friends gets in office, you'll get even more restrictions on our fuel.
Sorry, should have put the LOL after the global warming comment...I don't believe in that garbage. Besides, we need to produce more pollution to counter the Polar Bear population explosion anyhow...LOL!
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Matthew_B
The boonies near Dallas, Oregon
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Deen wrote:kjames90755 wrote:IIRC hydro-electric provides some 15-25% of electricity for several large regions of our country. Here in the NW it's almost 100% although wind turbines are being built and shipped in to supplement the hydro power.
At one time it was. Now it's under 70%. 20% is now from all the new gas turbine plants that have been built in the last 15 years. The rest is imported coal power and the one nuke plant in Richland, plus a tiny bit from wind.
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