Where is the US economy headed?

@H2O MAN,

That wet dream of yours - Obama is responsible for the recession.

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@talk72000,

talk72000 wrote:

Obama is responsible for the recession.

If you say so.

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@H2O MAN,

Dream on muddy waterboy. Mr. Green

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@okie,

You do realize that part of the cost of "educating" a child includes construction, building maintenance and utilities, don't you?

During academic 2006-07, the city of Arlington, Massachusetts spent $100,000 heating school buildings. Arlington could begin to solve the problem by replacing their aluminum-framed windows or it could simply wait for global warming to eliminate the need for heat.

Local control? OK. Make the kids wear wool sweaters and dial down those thermostats to 62 degrees F.

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I posted a link from politico on the GM stock offering on another thread. RJB requested that I post it here:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45194.html

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@plainoldme,

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There has been a series of documentaries presented by National Geographic on what the world will be like when the oil runs out. Unless we can turn away from the airplane and the car, and toward the ship and the train, we will be in enormous trouble

Just out of curiousity, exactly what do you think trains and ships use for power?

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@mysteryman,

atomic power and electricity?

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@rabel22,

There are no nuclear powered ships in the US, EXCEPT for the US Navy.
There has never been a nuclear powered cruise ship, and the only nuclear powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah, was decommissioned in 1970.

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/the-worlds-first-nuclear-merchant-ship-ns-savannah

As for using electricity to power trains, how would you do that?
Are you going to make the nations 233,000 miles of railroad track all electric?
How?

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@georgeob1,

Here, georgeob, this one's for you:

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U.S. Inflation Remains Muted

BY LUCA DI LEO AND TOM BARKLEY

U.S. consumer prices continued to rise modestly in October as gasoline prices surged, but underlying inflation hit its lowest level in more than 50 years, supporting the Federal Reserve's recent move to try to boost the economy.

The seasonally adjusted consumer-price index last month rose by 0.2% from September, the Labor Department said in a report Wednesday. It was the fourth consecutive month that higher energy costs helped to push prices up.

However, the so-called core inflation rate that is more closely watched by the Fed was unchanged as the price of new and used cars fell.

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@mysteryman,

He is correct with respect to the generation of electrical power with nuclear reactors. About 11% of our generating capacity in this country is from nuclear reactors and they produce about 21% of the total electrical power generated. The higher capacity factor or actual output is a result of the fact that, apart from dams & hydroelectrical plants, nuclear power generation is cheaper than coal or gas by about 20% and cheaper than the so called "renewable sources" by a factor of three. At night, when the demand falls, the utilities throttle back their coal plants and keep the nuclear plants going at 100%.

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@mysteryman,

Where I live we had electric trains we called trolleys. When the gas engine took over we decomissioned them. If they could do it 100 years ago we should be able to do it now. And than their is the east coast with all its electric trains.

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@rabel22,

I know that electric trains exist, I am not disputing that.

However, how about the hundreds of miles of RR track thru the rocky mountains?
How are you going to electricify them?
And how will you keep them working when there is 6 feet of snow on the tracks?

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Apologies if this has already been posted.

Sadly funny

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The video is a joke - right?

It's the government school system that breeds this
kind of anti-intellectualism of the American people.

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@JPB,

Nice, Very nice!

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@H2O MAN,

Share with us the true news source that we all can know is correct!

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@reasoning logic,

You would first need to find yourself some common sense.
Without it - you would fail to understand logic and reason.

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@JPB,

Well, finally! Somebody else challenging the feds and Bernanke of buying those bonds. They sure know how to deepen the problems of our economy; if it survives their games, it'll be a miracle of the first order!

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@rabel22,

rabel22 wrote:

Where I live we had electric trains we called trolleys. When the gas engine took over we decomissioned them. If they could do it 100 years ago we should be able to do it now. And than their is the east coast with all its electric trains.

Where did the electricity come from?

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@rabel22,

rabel22 wrote:

atomic power and electricity?

You might guess again. Hint, one important power source starts with the letters di, which is refined from somthing, starting with the letters oi.

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