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

[John Swindler]

You are assuming a mononpoly on heat pumps.  
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:40:44 -0400> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > 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.> >> > 
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