Sky High Av gas **** you off?

Larry Dighera wrote:

Perhaps. But with the current record market prices for crude oil, you
can bet photo voltaics will become a lot more popular and attractive
to the general public as solar electricity becomes more competitive
with coal/natural gas/oil. While that won't directly relieve the
financial burden on pilots, in the long run it could reduce our
nation's dependency on petroleum based energy. That's got to be a
good thing for US independence from the whims of foreign nations as
well as being more environmentally friendly.

Non sequitur.

Electricity doesn't compete with oil and one has nothing to do with
the other in the existing, real world.

Coal is not oil and US coal comes from the US.

Natural gas is not oil and US natural gas comes from the US and Canada.

Personally, I don't see the demand for energy slacking any time soon,
so I foresee a much longer investment cycle in the solar and wind
power marketplace.

Until the subsidies run out like last time.


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Larry Dighera wrote:

Electricity doesn't compete with oil and one has nothing to do with
the other in the existing, real world.

Coal is not oil and US coal comes from the US.

Natural gas is not oil and US natural gas comes from the US and Canada.


I can use all of the above to heat my house. In the last 12 months, I spent
$2200 on natural gas. My sister-in-law heats with electricity.

For this purpose, they're interchangable.

I forget - Kalifornia isn't the real world.

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Larry Dighera wrote:

Electricity doesn't compete with oil and one has nothing to do with
the other in the existing, real world.

Coal is not oil and US coal comes from the US.

Natural gas is not oil and US natural gas comes from the US and Canada.


I can use all of the above to heat my house. In the last 12 months, I spent
$2200 on natural gas. My sister-in-law heats with electricity.

For this purpose, they're interchangable.

Yeah, so what?

Most building heat on the West side of the US is natural gas and has
been for about a half century.

You will be hard pressed to find any new construction (or within the
past couple of decades) that uses anything other than gas for building
heat in an area with a gas distribution system.

Using electricity for heat is a dumb idea unless you are getting
your power from the TVA for essentially nothing.


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