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To: John Hunt who wrote (45950)	12/13/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 116764

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To: John Hunt who wrote (45950)	12/13/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: Ironyman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

John,,, When you put a vacuum on a oil well, you are sucking natural gas!....Most oil fields use this for cogeneration. ---This Y2k is just going to be an excuse to raise prices! Regards, Irony Man

To: John Hunt who wrote (45950)	12/14/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116764

Monday December 13 6:03 PM ET U.S. Railroads Plan Y2K Pause As a Precaution By Tim Dobbyn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major freight railroads and the Amtrak passenger service said on Monday they will temporarily halt operations just before midnight this New Year's Eve as a precaution against Year 2000 computer problems. Although millions of dollars have been spent on avoiding the computer glitch, the railroads and many city subway systems are reliant on outside supplies of electricity and telecommunications and have decided to take no chances. ``We are going to take a short pause to take everything down and bring it up and make sure it all functions,' said Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (NYSE:BNI <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=bni&d=t> - news <http://biz.yahoo.com/n/b/bni.html>) spokesman Richard Russack. In the nation's capital, where thousands of revelers are expected to use the Metro to come downtown for ``America's Millennium Gala,' the trains will stop at stations with their doors open for about 10 minutes starting five minute before midnight, a spokeswoman said. The Chicago Transit Authority plans a similar exercise just in case of problems relating to the old programming habit of allocation two digits for the year in dates. ``It's just a precaution,' said a spokesman. Delays on the national passenger railroad, Amtrak, may last anywhere from 15 minutes to over an hour on some routes through less-populated portions of the United States, a spokesman said. ``We will stop at the biggest station along each route so that if, God forbid, anything goes wrong, we can get those people off if necessary,' Amtrak spokesman John (cont) dailynews.yahoo.com