"m Ransley" wrote in message
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Turtle , only a person with subsidised electric will go electric, ex
04 Kwh
Now- today- electric at 0.125 Kwh is nearly 3 TIMES the cost of gas
at my gas price, which is the norm for the midwest of USA.
Do you remember the 1000$ microwave, sure you do, now it is 50$.
Competition - demand dictates prices.
This is Turtle.
Here in Louisiana where fuel or electricity is still pretty cheap. the people
with all electric homes 2,000 sq. ft. [ no heat pumps ] with straight electric
15 KW element heat still get a $200 to $300.00 electric bill during the worst
cold weather times. Some even have this set up and use a panel ray heater as
heat and the propane cost them about $125 a month during cold months but we only
have 2 of them. Here in the South we get the fuel off the top before the middle
men start getting their cut off it. Louisiana produces 1/8 of all the natural
gas the U.S.A. uses totally.
Now to the Microwave stuff. I can remember the $1,000.00 microwave but I bought
one years ago and used it for YearS with a big S and now after giving it away to
kind folk and bought a cheap one. It has been 5 years and I've bought two of
them to last 5 years.
Now if the government tells the hvac industry to go to 13 seer and 93+% AFUE
furnaces. The hvac industry is making about 1/2 of all their equipment now over
seas and in Mexico and this will make them move all their operation over seas or
to Mexico. I crossed the Border here a while back at Brownville and saw
manufactoring plants of Rheem , Carrier, Trane, and Lennox. The produce the
parts there and ship them into the U.S. and just put them together here. If you
push them, They will just start assembling them there too and just ship them in.
With this push you will cut over 100,000+ employees job lost to Mexico or over
seas. Another not here all of Carrier equipment will be made and shipped into
the U.S. as of now. They have moved all their operation over seas. The only jobs
that will get the benefit of this is Railroad workers and Trucking companys and
they might just be Mexican companys doing this.
The American people get screwed everytime the Government get into telling the
industry what to do. The average assembly line Forman [ not worker ] get about
$25.00 a day or $500.00 a month. The American counter part would want more than
this.
TURTLE
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