[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?

[Schneider Fred]

That is the Pittsburgh content ... you live 25 feet from your neighbors.

But who says prices will not escalate.   If I own the factory making  
the heat pump and the price of oil goes up, then I'll raise the price  
of the heat pumps just to make more money.   Economics 101.   That  
works until someone else cuts me off and makes a cheaper heat pump.

On Aug 12, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Schneider Fred wrote:
>
>> Fred would like to be able to come back in 25 years and see what our
>> cities will look like.   Intuitively he feels that we will have
>> reversed the trend to suburban living because we will not be able to
>> afford (1) to heat large homes,
>
> Geothermal (ground source heat pump) with a government-assisted  
> mortgage.
>
>> (2) to cool large homes,
>
> Same.
>
>> (3) to mow 3/4s of a acre of grass
>
> Low water height topping out grass exists.
>
>
>> (4) to drive all over the landscape to shop or to work or to go to  
>> school.
>
> This is harder. We'll see what happens with electric or plug in hybrid
> vehicles but it only helps if you can get the electricity in a  
> sustainable
> (read: not going to just escalate in price as the resources become  
> scarce)
> manner.
>
> Where's the Pittsburgh content?
>
> I suppose I live less than 25 feet from my neighbors. All of them.
>