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Norman in Alaska they have long winters with very short sunlight hours...
and in Summer there are long sunlite hrs.. I have not heard if there is a
way yet to store this SOLAR energy for use beyond a certain amount of
time.... NOT EVERYONE LIVES IN FLORIDA... :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Winski" <nwinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [RT] Oil!
> Michael F,
>
> I say let's kick the hyrdocarbon habit altogether. That stuff is a
> depleting asset that pollutes our enviorment. Oil has caused us big
trouble
> in the past and it is going to cause big trouble in the future.. Think of
> the billions being spent on the war and being given to the airlines. If
we
> directed a fraction of that amount toward a serious alternative energy
> research we would soon have a way to kick the oil habit. We could save
> billiions and save our enviroment for future generations.
>
> For example, I could be stupid, run a heat pump for my swimming pool and
> spend an extra $200 per month for electricity. Instead, I have solar
> heating, it costs almost nothing additioanal to operate, and my pool temp.
> averages 90 degrees. Because the solar heating system has very few moving
> parts, the maintanence for this system is much lower than a heat pump, for
> the same initiial costs. Heat pump life expectancy is about 7 years.
Solar
> heating system life expectancy is about 15 years. Both cost about the same
> for the initial outlay. Which would you want?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Norman
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Ferguson" <wl7bdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [RT] Oil!
>
>
> > I still say the West should cut off all oil purchases from the Mid East.
> Let
> > them kill themselves over the last air conditioned limo. Let them pump
oil
> > into jerry jugs when all their tanks are full. And absolutely cut off
> their
> > access to western revenues.
> >
> > There is plenty of oil in other continents to supply the west for years.
> It
> > might not be noticeable, but the ME produces NOTHING. It supplies oil to
> > producer nations. Something about their culture is totally unproductive.
> It
> > is destructive and merciless. We should let them have it all to
> themselves.
> >
> > Five years or so should suffice to reduce their populations to more
> > manageable levels. The sheiks will whine and beg the west to please buy
> > their oil, at a discount for a friend of Rick.
> >
> > And the condition will simply be that the hate mongering "mullahs" will
be
> > disposed of. Terminated. And the criminal psychotics dealt with
> > appropriately. When they have their patch cleaned up and can control the
> > criminals inside their borders, the west will buy small quantities of
oil
> > from them, temporarily, to test the success of their self control.
> >
> > A five year time-out for the mid east.
> >
> > I know this sounds like whacko heresy to everyone who believes that the
> only
> > oil that works in western economies comes from eastern suppliers, BUT I
> > DON'T BELIEVE IT.
> >
> > I am sitting very close to enough oil to run this country for years, if
> only
> > America was smart enough to use it.
> >
> > Let 'em eat sand,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Subject: [RT] Oil!
> >
> >
> > > I must say that some of this 3rd party intelligence stuff regarding
> Saudi
> > > Arabia, murmurs out of the anti-Iraq side of the Bush administration,
> and
> > > Israeli actions (e.g. last night's assassination of Hamas leader) are
> > giving
> > > me the creeps when it comes to oil! Rick Simmons (a very respected
> > > investment banker specializing in energy) wrote a piece 16-18 months
ago
> > > regarding the prospects for repeat of early 70's oil supply/price
> shocks.
> > > Prices followed his script until the recession brought down demand but
> now
> > > his ME scenario is perking away. It's not so much that the ME powers
> don't
> > > need the cash flows but that politics appear to increasingly threaten
> oil
> > > supplies whether it be an attack on the Alaska pipeline, overthrow of
a
> ME
> > > government, or terrorist attacks on ME oil fields or shipping
terminals.
> > >
> > > Earl
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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