Todays Good News Report

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TweetOur montly exports are 145 billion bucks

63 billion more than five years ago

them emerging countries like our good stuff, we got some of the best

Thursday, 7-17-08

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Tweetwelp...good to hear. now,....where's klash to bust your baloon? lol

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Tweetnatural gas is going down down down today, we have too much build up

and earl tossed two bucks out the window as it drove by

energy going down will cut inflation, yeah babeeeeeeeeeeeee

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natural gas is going down down down today, we have too much build up

It must depend on were you live. This was in the paper yesterday.

Natural gas prices to soar
By BRAD CAIN
The Associated Press
SALEM — As if soaring prices at the gasoline pump weren’t bad enough, natural gas customers in Oregon should brace for double-digit increases in their monthly heating bills just as the winter arrives.

The three companies supplying Oregon consumers on Tuesday said demand for natural gas is high, wholesale prices are rising, and that the utilities will have to pass those costs along to customers.

Oregon’s largest gas utility, NW Natural, said rates could rise by as much as 35 to 40 percent. Avista and Cascade Natural Gas estimated increases ranging from 10 percent to 20 percent.

The companies’ new rates are expected to be approved by the Oregon Public Utility Commission in late October and take effect Nov. 1.

NW Natural President Gregg Kantor said the 35 percent increase would be the largest in the company’s history.

“We know how hard it is for our customers to sustain higher prices and to pay those higher bills,’’ Kantor said prior to a PUC hearing. “But the simple truth is, we really cannot protect our customers from soaring commodity prices alone.’’

Members of the utility commission and advocates for low-income Oregonians warned that the increases would be a real hardship on people this winter.

“This is sobering news given the economic pressures consumers are already facing on other fronts,’’ said PUC Chairman Lee Beyer.

Other advocates urged Oregonians to begin thinking now about ways to save on natural gas use this winter by adding weather stripping and caulking to doors and windows and more insulation to their homes and taking other energy-conserving steps.

Utility officials used Tuesday’s briefing to promote the idea that Oregon needs access to more existing and new gas supplies. They said that includes building new pipelines, storage facilities and LNG terminals, proposals which have stirred controversy in recent months.

NW Natural, which provides service to customers in northwest Oregon, said it would have a better idea of how much of a rate increase residential customers will face after the company secures its 2009 supplies in September.

A NW Natural spokeswoman said if the company is forced to implement the full proposed increase, the average residential customer’s monthly bill would rise from the current $75 to $100.

Cascade Natural Gas Corp., which serves customers in Central Oregon and part of Northeast Oregon, projected that it would request rate increases in the 15-20 percent range, while Avista Corp. forecast 10-15 percent for its customers in southwest and northeastern Oregon.

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Tweeti'm ready for that bro!!

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TweetNo if we can get rid of the ethanol mandate food inflation will disapear also.

really thinkin of converting the suv to natural gas

Akamai

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Tweetearl thru another two bucks out the window


it's not as much ethanol as it is a weak dollar, from all the war stuff, once commodities crack, they will all come down

ethanol is pretty lame right now, cost wise, yet, it's one of those u gotta go thru the pain to get too the other side, cellulocic is the goal like brazil, where u can convert sugar cane, saw grass, weeds in general, etc., it's an infrastructure deal

either way, it's all good news today, all good

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Tweetthe final one for the day

we had an uptick in the number of new homes starts

this is important cause it means alot of the new home builders have finally sold off enough inventory at cheap prices, that there is real demand for these homes

a sign of stabilization, not an end to the housing mess, just a sign, were past the bottom, maybe only and inch, yet, the going down seems to have stopped for now

fwiw, my bro,real is a realator, in big d, he's still doing well selling em, lot's of first time buyers, homes in da 140-200 range are getting taken out pretty quickly

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TweetDAVES DOG HAS ANAL WARTS!

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TweetHey man thats great!!! Yaaaaaa