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To: robert b furman who wrote (9226)	1/24/2006 10:33:58 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) of 12411

Historically Americans seem to ignore the cost of energy except in principle. That is to say, everyone talks a good game but still wastes it. When I was a kid gas was a quarter for a gallon, many families (our's included) did not have even one car. People used a push mower to cut their lawns and a shovel instead of a snowthrower. Wasting energy has become a right, not a privilege. Someone in your area may see small changes as the result of population expansion. With the occasional exception of a few years here and there I've always lived within a few miles of where I grew up. The population is stable as a result of being so close to Manhattan, yet without any highways shooting through. Traffic conditions have resulted in the local towns putting in traffic lights on corners where we never would have dreamed even just a few years ago. Efforts to make homes more energy efficient have resulted in some major twists. Asbestos. Homes that are so efficient people get sick. Of course, even the cost of energy to make these homes efficient. Plus the rising cost of the basic commodities to build or improve these homes. Americans rarely cut back on anything. Look at the small things. People today were complaining about a $5 increase in a certain size of an Olive Oil product. I'm sure they still bought it. At first they will conserve it but.... Everything will be getting a lot more expensive. Energy will be a big cause of it but that decline in the buck will exacerbate it. So much of what we buy is imported. Who knows, with everything ballooning in price gasoline may seem like a bargain. What are TIPS, anyway? Is that what I'm going to have to work for after my Home Run portfolio blows up?

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