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"jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message
. .. JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "HeyBub" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: The point is that in some cities, mass transportation isn't foisted on people. They choose to use it because the physical realities of trying to drive into those cities make it insane to consider using a car on a daily basis. People who use the word "foisted" must be possessed by some sort of childish cowboy independence mentality. If the light rail idea had become a reality here in my county, nobody would've been forced to use it. Yeah, but you (and millions of others) are forced to PAY for it. Fares never come close to the operating budget. We're forced to pay for all sorts of crap. I wouldn't mind paying for a light rail system. Then you'd be even more of a fool than you routinely demonstrate yourself to be. Light rail doesn't work as mass transit No capacity, no speed. Heavy rail works. Busses work very very well. Light rail is a farce. Do you suppose light rail can do better than 30 mph on a good day? |
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: MERCIFUL SNIPPAGE Based on everything I've read, much of the unrest in Saudi Arabia, for instance, is *already* due to the gross inequities between the royals and everyone else. This is why the royal family continues to support schools whose teachers instruct students that WE are the reason for their miserable lives. We should've fulfilled their fantasies and put THEIR country under new management, instead of Iraq. But, that would've required balls. Wha's this "we" ****, Kimosabe? You are wearing what uniform and on active duty with which branch of the US armed forces. Yeah, thats what I thought. You're the queen of useless posts today, aren't you? Is this the best you can do, obsessing about words like "we", instead of the substance of the message? Message? Substance? You? Now that at least is funny and mildly entertainng. Thank you for proving my point. You are afraid of dealing with substance. Why is that? What conflict frowned upon in your family? Were you taught to keep quiet to avoid being slapped around by one of your "fathers"? Pathetic. Worse than a middle school bully. Unable to actually have a real discussion, Joe resorts to ranking on families. Looser. |
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message . .. JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "HeyBub" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: The point is that in some cities, mass transportation isn't foisted on people. They choose to use it because the physical realities of trying to drive into those cities make it insane to consider using a car on a daily basis. People who use the word "foisted" must be possessed by some sort of childish cowboy independence mentality. If the light rail idea had become a reality here in my county, nobody would've been forced to use it. Yeah, but you (and millions of others) are forced to PAY for it. Fares never come close to the operating budget. We're forced to pay for all sorts of crap. I wouldn't mind paying for a light rail system. Then you'd be even more of a fool than you routinely demonstrate yourself to be. Light rail doesn't work as mass transit No capacity, no speed. Heavy rail works. Busses work very very well. Light rail is a farce. Do you suppose light rail can do better than 30 mph on a good day? No, it ca't. The one ride everyweekday (Portland Tri Met Yellow Line) averages a whopping 17 MPH. Per Tri Met. |
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jJim McLaughlin wrote:
Of course ifyou want to seea really safe and well run nuclear power pogram, look at the US Nay. "Pogram?" "US Nay?" |
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jJim McLaughlin wrote: Of course ifyou want to seea really safe and well run nuclear power pogram, look at the US Nay. "Pogram?" "US Nay?" Maybe it's shorthand for the persecution of American nuclear nay-sayers? -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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"jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message
news JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: MERCIFUL SNIPPAGE Based on everything I've read, much of the unrest in Saudi Arabia, for instance, is *already* due to the gross inequities between the royals and everyone else. This is why the royal family continues to support schools whose teachers instruct students that WE are the reason for their miserable lives. We should've fulfilled their fantasies and put THEIR country under new management, instead of Iraq. But, that would've required balls. Wha's this "we" ****, Kimosabe? You are wearing what uniform and on active duty with which branch of the US armed forces. Yeah, thats what I thought. You're the queen of useless posts today, aren't you? Is this the best you can do, obsessing about words like "we", instead of the substance of the message? Message? Substance? You? Now that at least is funny and mildly entertainng. Thank you for proving my point. You are afraid of dealing with substance. Why is that? What conflict frowned upon in your family? Were you taught to keep quiet to avoid being slapped around by one of your "fathers"? Pathetic. Worse than a middle school bully. Unable to actually have a real discussion, Joe resorts to ranking on families. Looser. Looser than what? You asked to be insulted, so I granted your wish. Have you forgotten what you wrote earlier today? |
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On Dec 29, 12:53*pm, (Don Klipstein) wrote:
In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper * Where? *Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. Oops, I meant "electric heat is more expensive". D'oh!!!@ |
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In article , JoeSpareBedroom wrote in
part: "jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: I (Don) EDIT FOR SPACE HERE We're forced to pay for all sorts of crap. I wouldn't mind paying for a light rail system. Then you'd be even more of a fool than you routinely demonstrate yourself to be. Light rail doesn't work as mass transit No capacity, no speed. Heavy rail works. Busses work very very well. Light rail is a farce. Do you suppose light rail can do better than 30 mph on a good day? The Route 100 trolley line through Delaware County to Norristown (in Montgomery Co.), suburbs of Philadelphia, achieves 60 MPH in the fastest stretch and 35-50 in a lot of other portions of the route. I have seen some of these go a bit faster in the fastest stretch. One of the morning rush hour express ones leaves 69th St terminal at 8:15 AM and arrives at the Norristown end of the line at 8:38 according to the schedule. In that 23 minutes, it travels a distance that I estimate on a map to be about 11.5 miles. That works out to 30 MPH average speed from one end of the line to the other, which I consider very high for a trolley. This line has trolleys running mainly (possibly entirely) on dedicated right-of-way. However, I have seen cost estimates of a proposed light rail line northwestward along the Schuylkill River, where the Reading Railroad used to run trains. Construction estimate was a gigabuck or two IIRC, despite running where track already exists for the line that the Reading Railroad used to run trains between Philadelphia and Reading. With projected ridership of only a few thousand passengers daily, that price easily makes this appear to be a bad deal, and it has yet to get off the ground. I have even not heard anything about this in the past couple or few years. - Don Klipstein ) |
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:56:01 -0800, jJim McLaughlin wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:36:58 -0600, Jim Redelfs wrote: In article , "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: I have a theory which says that if bus occupancy increased that much, it might be possible to buy more busses. I'm not sure, though. I'll bet you're not. Ridership has NOTHING to do (anymore) with buying new busses. Additional fleecing of the non-riding taxpayer has EVERYTHING to do with it. I was wondering when the psychotic trolls would chime in. What part of Redfels post has anything to do with "...psychotic trolls..."? Where I live, Portland, Oregon, the local mass transit agency, Tri-Met makes no bones about the failure of the farebox to actually pay for the service. Tri Met reports that less than 20% of costs are paid by he farebox. Add up road costs, add up emergency service (police, fire, medical), subtract the little taxed onto gas, and you find that public transportation is a bargain. Unless, of course, you're a hermit. |
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote:
In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. The price of fuel oil would have to quadruple to equal the cost of electric heat and if fossil fuels became so expensive, electricity would also become more expensive. |
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:33:36 -0800, jJim McLaughlin wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message . .. JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "HeyBub" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: The point is that in some cities, mass transportation isn't foisted on people. They choose to use it because the physical realities of trying to drive into those cities make it insane to consider using a car on a daily basis. People who use the word "foisted" must be possessed by some sort of childish cowboy independence mentality. If the light rail idea had become a reality here in my county, nobody would've been forced to use it. Yeah, but you (and millions of others) are forced to PAY for it. Fares never come close to the operating budget. We're forced to pay for all sorts of crap. I wouldn't mind paying for a light rail system. Then you'd be even more of a fool than you routinely demonstrate yourself to be. Light rail doesn't work as mass transit No capacity, no speed. Heavy rail works. Busses work very very well. Light rail is a farce. Do you suppose light rail can do better than 30 mph on a good day? No, it ca't. The one ride everyweekday (Portland Tri Met Yellow Line) averages a whopping 17 MPH. Per Tri Met. That compares very favorible with the 3mph traffic at rush hour. |
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"AZ Nomad" wrote in message
... On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:33:36 -0800, jJim McLaughlin wrote: JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "jJim McLaughlin" wrote in message . .. JoeSpareBedroom wrote: "HeyBub" wrote in message ... JoeSpareBedroom wrote: The point is that in some cities, mass transportation isn't foisted on people. They choose to use it because the physical realities of trying to drive into those cities make it insane to consider using a car on a daily basis. People who use the word "foisted" must be possessed by some sort of childish cowboy independence mentality. If the light rail idea had become a reality here in my county, nobody would've been forced to use it. Yeah, but you (and millions of others) are forced to PAY for it. Fares never come close to the operating budget. We're forced to pay for all sorts of crap. I wouldn't mind paying for a light rail system. Then you'd be even more of a fool than you routinely demonstrate yourself to be. Light rail doesn't work as mass transit No capacity, no speed. Heavy rail works. Busses work very very well. Light rail is a farce. Do you suppose light rail can do better than 30 mph on a good day? No, it ca't. The one ride everyweekday (Portland Tri Met Yellow Line) averages a whopping 17 MPH. Per Tri Met. That compares very favorible with the 3mph traffic at rush hour. Give the man a free case of beer...... |
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AZ Nomad wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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Add up road costs, add up emergency service (police, fire, medical), subtract the little taxed onto gas, and you find that public transportation is a bargain. Unless, of course, you're a hermit. Several years ago, a Minneapolis suburb funded a public transport ( bus ) system. After a few years of running DEEP in the red, some wise man calculated it would be cheaper to send a ( free ) taxi to each riders home. In most citys, you'll see empty bus's plying back and forth, tying up traffic, burning up diesel, and creating another layer of overpriced govt. employees. rj |
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On Dec 23, 4:28 am, Jim Redelfs wrote:
The Nanny Geniuses in D.C. just passed legislation that, in addition to putting some serious "hurt" on our domestic car and light truck industry, kills off those outmoded, wasteful and environmentally DEVASTATING electric lamps we've all come to know and love. Say "goodbye" to the venerable 100w and 75w, cheap, light bulb. (Thomas Alva Edison will surely turn over in his grave). Stock-up and horde 'em now, folks. They'll be worth a LOT in 10-15 years on the black market. I just switched all my exterior entryways and garage "eyebrow" fixtures to CF lamps. I am considering switching BACK the one beside the front door. I rarely use exterior lighting. Mostly, I switch-on the front porch light when there is someone at the door - a rare occurrence. On those occasions, I want IMMEDIATE light. However, right now, it is 12F outside and that curly, compact fluorescent lamp outside, by the front door, doesn't provide usable light worth a damn for a minute or two. With no apologies to anyone, I believe that switching to CF lamps won't, over the LONG "haul", provide a bit of "relief" to our ever-increasing energy consumption. Although that implies that our ever-increasing energy consumption needs relief, I am adamantly UNconvinced of that in any case. The Energy Bill provided for NO new energy. All the windmills, solar panels, methane plants and CF bulbs in the world cannot, and never will, provide for our energy needs. Conservation alone is NOT the answer, even IF there were a problem. We have adequate stores of fossil fuels to keep our grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren cool or warm and productive. Whether we can overcome all the hand-wringing, crybaby, do-gooders that think they're saving something by declaring wide swaths of our land "off limits" to fossil fuel harvesting is another matter. We learned how to do it cleanly, neatly and with minimal environmental impact YEARS ago. But that's not good enough now. We simply CAN'T do it because of some PERCEIVED, detrimental environmental impact. That's B.S. How about slashing the "red tape" and getting a few, new nuclear power generating stations on-line within ten years? We should drill for oil and gas in ANWR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge)? Why do you think Seward talked Congress into buying Alaska? Do you think he would have ever believed that there'd come a day when vast miles of it would be virtually off-limits to any resource harvesting? Despite incessant impediments from environmentalists, the Tans-Alaska Pipeline was finally built. But, Shazam! The devastation to the environment and wildlife it was predicted to cause never happened. They were WRONG. They're wrong now. CF bulbs and set-back thermostats are NOT the final solution, even if there was a problem. Heck, such measures aren't even a viable stop-gap. We need more energy. Let's go get it. -Jim Redelfs Not a related comment as much as just another reason why I HATE CFL. Anyone else notice that digital camera's auto white balance feature is usually thrown off kilter by those lights? I have a ceiling fan with 4 CFL in it, and the camera still think it looks like incandescent, but the wavelength is still a bit off in the color spectrum range. Just bitching. |
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:03:18 -0700, RJ wrote:
Add up road costs, add up emergency service (police, fire, medical), subtract the little taxed onto gas, and you find that public transportation is a bargain. Unless, of course, you're a hermit. Several years ago, a Minneapolis suburb funded a public transport ( bus ) system. After a few years of running DEEP in the red, some wise man calculated it would be cheaper to send a ( free ) taxi to each riders home. I bet his math was ****. Did he make the fatal assumption that roads and emergency services cost nothing? |
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? |
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, AZ Nomad wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? This does sound to me like .0185 dollars per KWH, 1.85 cents per KWH, which is less than 1/5, probably more like 1/6 of the USA national average per-KWH-portion (as opposed to fees not related to quantity used) of residential electricity cost. Accordingly, incandescent lighting costs a lot less in Douglas County WA than in most of elsewhere in the USA. - Don Klipstein ) |
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, Smitty Two wrote: In article , (Don Klipstein) wrote: This does sound to me like .0185 dollars per KWH, 1.85 cents per KWH, which is less than 1/5, probably more like 1/6 of the USA national average per-KWH-portion (as opposed to fees not related to quantity used) of residential electricity cost. Uh, let me be the first to suggest you look at the decimal point again... Never mind, I'll look at it again myself... OP? what's going on? Has to be 18 1/2 cents one way or another. |
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AZ Nomad wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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Smitty Two wrote:
In article , Smitty Two wrote: In article , (Don Klipstein) wrote: This does sound to me like .0185 dollars per KWH, 1.85 cents per KWH, which is less than 1/5, probably more like 1/6 of the USA national average per-KWH-portion (as opposed to fees not related to quantity used) of residential electricity cost. Uh, let me be the first to suggest you look at the decimal point again... Never mind, I'll look at it again myself... OP? what's going on? Has to be 18 1/2 cents one way or another. Nope. 1.85 cents per KW hour. -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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"Dave Bugg" wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? How would you rationalize anything other than dollars from 0.0185/KWH??? -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
"Dave Bugg" wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? How would you rationalize anything other than dollars from 0.0185/KWH??? I don't need to rationalize simple math. If you have a problem understanding the meaning of a decimal, feel free to ask a 5th grader. -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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"Dave Bugg" wrote:
Floyd L. Davidson wrote: "Dave Bugg" wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? How would you rationalize anything other than dollars from 0.0185/KWH??? I don't need to rationalize simple math. If you have a problem understanding the meaning of a decimal, feel free to ask a 5th grader. You do realize that 0.0185 *dollars* is exactly what he was talking about, and that $0.0185 is equal to 1.85 cents. Or don't you grok decimals at all? -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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In article , Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
"Dave Bugg" wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? How would you rationalize anything other than dollars from 0.0185/KWH??? I surely rationalize dollars per KWH - as in .0185 dollars per KWH, which is 1.85 cents per KWH, which is something like 1/6 the average of USA residental cost for the portion of USA excluding Douglas County WA. If this is true, that is, which I consider fairly likely for an area with a hydropower plant with excess capacity and ability to sell its surplus to "The Grid" at "market rate". A large majority of the USA outside this county has more need for compact fluorescents than this county has. In a county with 1.85 cent per KWH electricity, outside season for air conditioning (which most counties of WA have low need for), compact fluorescents have main sales opportunity being long life and a good track record of good life expectancy, to extent that per-bulb cost exceeds that of incandescents only by a ratio less than the ratio of life expectancy among those two types. For that matter, in a super-low-electricity-cost county, the lowest-cost incandescents are ones of moderately longer life, especially the 1500 hour ones available at Home Depot, the 130V version of "standard" ones at Lowes (watts reduced 11%, light output down 23-23%, life multiplied by roughly 2.5 - to about 1900 hours) and the "/99" ones rated to last 2500 hours with light output reduced 13-15% (check out the Philips lamp catalog and bulbs.com). Compact fluorescents can have quite a tough sell in such a county, and merely a mildly difficult sell for ones with good and well-published and well-peer-reviewed data indicating life expectancy of at least 6,000-10,000 hours - along with warning buyers of the applications where they run into shorter life (short runtime per start, heat-hellhole downlights, whatever) - and those selling them should say where they do better and where they are more likely to run into whatever specific ones of the common few pitfalls! - Don Klipstein ) |
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Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
"Dave Bugg" wrote: Floyd L. Davidson wrote: "Dave Bugg" wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? How would you rationalize anything other than dollars from 0.0185/KWH??? I don't need to rationalize simple math. If you have a problem understanding the meaning of a decimal, feel free to ask a 5th grader. You do realize that 0.0185 *dollars* is exactly what he was talking about, and that $0.0185 is equal to 1.85 cents. Oh, semantics to try and backstep, eh? If you had meant a fraction of a dollar, you should have said ...'0.0185 of a dollar'. By using the word 'Dollars' indicating a plurality, you were mistakenly thinking dollars, instead of cents. Or don't you grok decimals at all? I grok just fine. But you seem to be groping. -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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Don Klipstein wrote:
A large majority of the USA outside this county has more need for compact fluorescents than this county has. In a county with 1.85 cent per KWH electricity, outside season for air conditioning (which most counties of WA have low need for), You're right, Don. Counties west of the Cascade mountains have a much milder climate. And most folks don't know that east of the Cascades, which is the largest geographical area of Washington State and doesn't receive anywhere near the rainfall of the west side, is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. compact fluorescents have main sales opportunity being long life and a good track record of good life expectancy, to extent that per-bulb cost exceeds that of incandescents only by a ratio less than the ratio of life expectancy among those two types. It's interesting that even with our low electrical costs, which are shared by a number of our neighboring counties who also own their own dams, there is still a big push for CFs as energy savers. And a lot of folks here still want to purchase them with the intent to save money on energy costs, as well as the longer life span of the bulb itself. The Public Utility Districts also provide energy audits and zero interest loans for insulation upgrades and other weatherization needs for homes. -- Dave www.davebbq.com |
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"Dave Bugg" wrote:
Floyd L. Davidson wrote: "Dave Bugg" wrote: Floyd L. Davidson wrote: "Dave Bugg" wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote: AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:53:16 +0000 (UTC), Don Klipstein wrote: In , z wrote in part: Maybe the outdoor bulbs are designed to fire at lower temps than the indoor bulbs? Anyway, yeah, electric heat is cheaper Where? Not USA national average, nor the metropolitan areas of NYC, Chicago or Philadelphia. electric heat isn't cheaper anywhere. Really? Here in Douglas County, WA our residential electric rate is .0185 per KW hour. We have cold winters and hot summers. My home is 2400 Sq Ft and is total electric. My average bill is $52.00 per month. Of course our Public Utility District owns its two hydro dams, and sells the surplus electricity on the open market at market prices. 0.0185 what per KWH? cents? dollars? How do you get dollars from 0.0185 ? Doesn't the decimal point indicate something? How would you rationalize anything other than dollars from 0.0185/KWH??? I don't need to rationalize simple math. If you have a problem understanding the meaning of a decimal, feel free to ask a 5th grader. You do realize that 0.0185 *dollars* is exactly what he was talking about, and that $0.0185 is equal to 1.85 cents. Oh, semantics to try and backstep, eh? If you had meant a fraction of a dollar, you should have said ...'0.0185 of a dollar'. By using the word 'Dollars' indicating a plurality, you were mistakenly thinking dollars, instead of cents. Or don't you grok decimals at all? I grok just fine. But you seem to be groping. Your grope is getting to be nothing but the whine of the confused. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
Your grope is getting to be nothing but the whine of the confused. And your confusion seems to be from gropping too many wine bottles. Be careful, that much wine will make your backpeddling dangerous. Thanks for playing, though. -- Dave |
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On Dec 23 2007, 3:33�pm, Dan_Musicant wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:31:54 -0500, Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote: an_Musicant wrote: : Fact is you can find CF's that don't take a minute to get usable light. : Some are nearly instant on. The only filament lamps I use at all are : maybe a couple I haven't bothered to change that I leave on for 5-10 : minutes at a time only. : : I find it grating to read posts which make fun of federal lawmakers. I : wouldn't want to spend more than 10 minutes of every year sitting in the : halls of congress. I know it's a madhouse, but walk a mile in their : shoes before you paint them all with the same brush. : : Believe it or not, letting people do what they damn well please doesn't : work in this country. : :You must be in the 15% that thinks congress is doing a good job. :Let the market decide. � Did I say they are doing a good job? See, that's what psychologists call "projection." If I thought they were doing a good job I wouldn't have said I wouldn't want to spend more than 10 minutes a year in their company. Sheesh. :I use CFL's not to save the planet but because :in the long run, I save money. I get it, like a lot of people you believe in being selfish, and worse, you ridicule people who do things for reasons other than selfish reasons. I think what he was saying was that people operate in their own best interest because they know what is in their own best interest. Unfortunately, government is no better a predictor of what is in my best interest than me, so while I may make a number of decisoins that work to my detriment, by and large I will make decisions that overall work best for me. More unfortunate is the unreliability of information that comes from government, because once a person has achieved power, he/she will often do things to maintain that power. Because, by and large, he/she will do what is in his or her own best interest, and maintaining power falls in that category. That includes lying about a variety of things in order to have a compliant public. That lying includes lying about motive, perhaps even to oneself. You must separate the wheat from the chaffe in politics, electing people who are not yet in the power grab mode, or you have to remove the motive to maintain power, which was the reasoning behind the inclusion of term limits in our system. It is very easy right now for people to believe that about George Bush, but these same people won't take a look at those on the other side of the aisle. The old saying, though, is "Follow the money". I look at people who have made a fortune on the global warming-as-man- made concept, who try to maintain control of that concept by saying that "debate is over" when it clearly is not, I see people threatening the careers of those who dispute the idea of human causality of global warming. Then I look at the careers and lifestyles of people in this camp and I wonder how the two can square with one another. For example, how much money has Al Gore made on the global warming issue? How does he live his own life with regard to things like energy consumption? Given the unreliability of such prognosticators, I don't rely on their data. I do, however, rely on the data supplied to me in the form of an electric bill every month. I have also purchased spiral flourescent bulbs, and I have done so based upon my own interest. You may call it selfish, but I have a family which relies upon me for efficient control of income versus expenditures, so I try to maximize the value of my money for them as much as or moreso than for me. I am sure that (Frank, I think ?) probably has a similar thought process. This is the kind of control of which people are capable, as the closer information is to you, the more reliable it tends to be, which is also one of the reasons we have the economic system we do. Another reason, of course, is the understanding that people will tend to act in a manner which is best suited for them and those for whom they are responsible. In other words, the information and the actions are localized. A ready example of information being localized here is your assumption that Frank believes in being selfish. You don't know fully his motivation for his decision to purchase things which save him money. Only he knows that, and therefore only he is generally in the best position to determine what is best for him, based upon is own values, his personal financial situation, his family situation, etc. As a wise man once said, walk a mile in his moccasins. What is of greatest concern to me here is that idea that someone's reason is more important than his action. We have an economic system in the U.S.A. set up to tap into individuals' self interests. This is specifically because any system devised to have a centralized authority looking out for our interests is necessarily going to involve people with power and the self interest to hold onto that power. We further have as part of our political system intentionally decentralized authority in the form of multiple branches, and amendments to our Constitution preventing them from being the sole arbiters and disseminators of information, primarily because information from those attempting to maintain power can be unreliable based on their motivations. Were global warming shown verifiably to be minimal and wholly unrelated to human activity, would this be good news? If so, do you think such news would be received happily by those who currently make a living decrying it? Do you think, for example, that Al Gore would readily accept that? As a parallel situation, consider the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton: Do you believe that they truly act on behalf of black people, or do you believe, based upoon their careers and lifestyles, that they are acting in their own interests at this point (regardless of the motivations you may believe they had at the start)? Do you believe that, if they got everything they demand, including an end to all racism, they would simply close up shop? Or are their careers too closely tied to the perception that racism exists everywhere, and that they might attempt to foment dissent when none is necessary? They have a product to sell, just as global warming decriers have a product to sell (and perhaps both have an agenda to advance). Just as the makers of spiral lightbulbs have a product to sell. None of them care why you buy the product, only that you do, and the greater your purchase, the better it is for them. The difference is that, as more people enter the market for spiral lightbulbs, the market widens, and economies of scale dictate that the price will go down. The price has continued to rise with the other two, because they are nebulous products. |
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, " wrote: I think what he was saying was that people operate in their own best interest because they know what is in their own best interest. Unfortunately, government is no better a predictor of what is in my best interest than me, so while I may make a number of decisoins that work to my detriment, by and large I will make decisions that overall work best for me. Probably a much worse predictor of what is best for me than I am because of the self-interest stuff you discuss later on. More unfortunate is the unreliability of information that comes from government, because once a person has achieved power, he/she will often do things to maintain that power. Because, by and large, he/she will do what is in his or her own best interest, and maintaining power falls in that category. That includes lying about a variety of things in order to have a compliant public. That lying includes lying about motive, perhaps even to oneself. You must separate the wheat from the chaffe in politics, electing people who are not yet in the power grab mode, or you have to remove the motive to maintain power, which was the reasoning behind the inclusion of term limits in our system. Nicely put, although everywhere you put politics, I would add "and the bureaucracy". The same power and self interest things get plugged in here. Probably more so, since most legislation really sketches things out in general terms and leaves it to the bureaucrats to write the rules and regs that actually implement the law. It is very easy right now for people to believe that about George Bush, but these same people won't take a look at those on the other side of the aisle. The old saying, though, is "Follow the money". I look at people who have made a fortune on the global warming-as-man- made concept, who try to maintain control of that concept by saying that "debate is over" when it clearly is not, I see people threatening the careers of those who dispute the idea of human causality of global warming. Then I look at the careers and lifestyles of people in this camp and I wonder how the two can square with one another. For example, how much money has Al Gore made on the global warming issue? How does he live his own life with regard to things like energy consumption? A prof from Wisconsin who is not at all a supporter of man made global warming on CNBC a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that came up was that those pro-GW tend to write off most anti_GW results off because they are paid for by oil companies. His first comment was a general indication that this was BS and not all were. Then he said something telling: "Besides when was the last time you heard of anyone who is anti-GW getting any federal grants?" The implication being that governments has its own problems with bias. Because something comes from a governmental or other non-industry group is no guarantee of lack of bias." |
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Ullman wrote: In article , " wrote: I think what he was saying was that people operate in their own best interest because they know what is in their own best interest. Unfortunately, government is no better a predictor of what is in my best interest than me, so while I may make a number of decisoins that work to my detriment, by and large I will make decisions that overall work best for me. Probably a much worse predictor of what is best for me than I am because of the self-interest stuff you discuss later on. More unfortunate is the unreliability of information that comes from government, because once a person has achieved power, he/she will often do things to maintain that power. Because, by and large, he/she will do what is in his or her own best interest, and maintaining power falls in that category. That includes lying about a variety of things in order to have a compliant public. That lying includes lying about motive, perhaps even to oneself. You must separate the wheat from the chaffe in politics, electing people who are not yet in the power grab mode, or you have to remove the motive to maintain power, which was the reasoning behind the inclusion of term limits in our system. Nicely put, although everywhere you put politics, I would add "and the bureaucracy". The same power and self interest things get plugged in here. Probably more so, since most legislation really sketches things out in general terms and leaves it to the bureaucrats to write the rules and regs that actually implement the law. It is very easy right now for people to believe that about George Bush, but these same people won't take a look at those on the other side of the aisle. The old saying, though, is "Follow the money". I look at people who have made a fortune on the global warming-as-man- made concept, who try to maintain control of that concept by saying that "debate is over" when it clearly is not, I see people threatening the careers of those who dispute the idea of human causality of global warming. Then I look at the careers and lifestyles of people in this camp and I wonder how the two can square with one another. For example, how much money has Al Gore made on the global warming issue? How does he live his own life with regard to things like energy consumption? A prof from Wisconsin who is not at all a supporter of man made global warming on CNBC a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that came up was that those pro-GW tend to write off most anti_GW results off because they are paid for by oil companies. His first comment was a general indication that this was BS and not all were. Then he said something telling: "Besides when was the last time you heard of anyone who is anti-GW getting any federal grants?" The implication being that governments has its own problems with bias. Because something comes from a governmental or other non-industry group is no guarantee of lack of bias." So how much is being spent by governments on global warming studies, how much of that is spent to pay those who only keep their jobs if they produce study results indicating need to remediate man-made global warming, (I expect a small number due to profit motive to either "defect to the other side" or "fame motive" [that can lead to profit] to produce studies and/or papers that show that "The Conventional Wisdom" is wrong. As an example - Einstein doing some significant boat-rocking of Newtonian physics!)? And how much on similar studies (that indicate lack of existence of man-made global warming that requires remediation) and "counterstudies" is being spent by industries (and front organizations thereof) that stand to lose from need (or knowlege thereof) to counteract man-made global warming? And why is some of the "counterdata" being misrepresentation of anthropogenic rate of carbon addition to the atmosphere into a low-by-73% claim of anthropogenic rate of CO2 to the atmosphere? (Hint: 44 grams of CO2 has 12 grams of carbon. Next hint: when need to do web searching, consider gigatons, which are the same as pecagrams, and for accounting of "anthropogenic input to carbon cycle" (my words, which I expect low search engine hit usefulness from) gigatons and pecagrams are the same, and so far in my experience is that one web-searchable unit of anthropogenic rate of transfer of carbon from the lithosphere to the atmosphere is "PcG C per year", maybe also PcGC, give-or-take upper/lower case. Please keep in mind that a pecagram or gigaton of carbon entering the atmosphere does so mainly [or closer to entirely] as 3.67 of same units of CO2.) - Don Klipstein ) |
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