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To: energyplay who wrote (63702)	5/9/2005 9:45:22 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<... be at the tender mercies of Wal-Mart, IKEA, Macy's, and the purchasing departments of Toyota, Hyundai, and Sony ?>> ... not likely, as all of the above are simply (and very simply) warehouses, telephones, computers, and folks hungry for jobs of minimal value-add. <<... State bank susbsides, some zero cost capital ?>> ... credit is cheap, because of Greensputin, not because of state banks. If it was just the state banks, credit would be very dear, as it should. <<dot-com business models ... they could make it up in volume....>> ... perhaps wrong analogy. More apt may be USA factories immediately after WWII, being the only factories standing. Hard to say, difficult to tell. One of those unknowable unknowns. Chugs, J