----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices
lately, but even they aren't as bad the middle east. Hoping to get completely away from oil imports in the near term is unrealistic.
Hoping to get away from high prices for fuel is unrealistic, also, no matter where the energy comes from. Prices are supply and demand driven. Any decrease in price caused by an increase in supply is offset by an increase in demand.
Example: A cheapskate who has plenty of discretionary income has cut his gasoline consumption from 100 gallons per week to 50 gallons per week because prices went up and supply went down. Note that his 100 gallons per week habit caused prices to go up. Once he sees lower prices he goes right back to using 100 gallons per week, thus fueling the vicious cycle.
No increase in supply from new drilling areas or any new source can lower prices for long as those who have a choice will choose to use more and soak up all of the increase in supply.
"Discretionary" is when a cheapskate goes boating with a friend who owns a speedboat and hands him $5.00 to defray the cost of his gasoline while the others hand him twenty dollar bills which is realistic. He did not have to take the boat out, but if he commutes to work in his car he did have to buy his automobile fuel. Boating is discretionary but transportation to and from work is not.
Stupid sign in the restroom in a public building (lots of people work there and visit there on business) "Turn off the lights upon leaving. Conserve energy." I wonder how much energy it takes to start up all those fluorescent lights in there! If you maintain a public restroom, conserve the quality of the air! Install auto flushers on all of the urinals. Don't worry about the lights!
My guess is: Incandescent lights. Turn these off if you do not need them for 30 minutes or longer. Fluorescent lights. Turn these off if you do not need them for an hour or longer.
Chuck
