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

[Schneider Fred]

Read it John.   That is clear.

On Aug 12, 2008, at 6:50 PM, John Swindler wrote:

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> You are assuming a mononpoly on heat pumps.
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>> 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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