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They’re an oil and gas producing country. That’s what they do. That’s how they make all their revenue. And I’m supposed to believe that the US is pressuring India to refuse cheap natural gas just because it will give money to the Iranians? This administration doesn’t even TRY to hide the fact that it shills solely for the US oil and gas industry….

No the US has no right. Iran is no threat at all but the US wants to portray them as some huge threat.

February 18th, 2008.
The Post-Tribune (Merrilville, Indiana): “Affordable hearing aid centers. Free can of Pork and Beans with purchase of any hearing aid.”
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota): “Police Report. A strong smell of natural gas was reported. The caller said the smell was possibly from the stove, or could have been caused by the dog.”
The Daily Telegram (Adrian, Michigan): “Antique bevel glass mirror. $150 or best offer. If wife answers, hang up and call back.” — Dave then re-created the probable scenario, in a woman’s voice: “Honey, what happened to our antique mirror?”
The Brownsburg Week (Brownsburg, Indiana): “Guess the weight of the rock and win a free burial plot.” — Dave: “They put the ‘FUN’ in funeral.”
The Lyons News (Lyons, Kansas): “For sale; size 4 new wedding gown. Bride moved next door with neighbor man.”
The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa): “Olds 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don’t love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat.”
The Baxter County Bulletin (Mountain Home, Arkansas): “Boat or wife must go. Boat is an 18.5 foot Skeeter Bass Boat, garage housed entire life and in supreme condition. Wife not as impressive.”
The News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana): “A West Monroe man was arrested. Deputies received complaints that he was flashing his genitals to a group of young women. Deputies contacted May, and he told them his genitals ‘fell out’ of his pants after he forgot to zip them.” Dave – “I wish I had a nickel every time this happened to me.” Then adds, “Guys, am I right about that?”

And that’s the news in the small towns.

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We produce 25%of the world’s pollution, we consume a third of the world’s wood, a third of the world’s expenditure on weapons is ours, we use a quarter of the world’s coal, natural gas and electricity, we have around 11,000 murders a year (domestic), our army has murdered about 150,000 Afghan and Iraqi civilians, more than 2500 US soldiers have died in Iraq, we are the world’s #1 drug users, we have the world’s largest national debt, our average general culture is equal to Jamaica’s, our best scientists and engineers are of foreign origin, Mexico’s election system is the most modern and advanced in the world, and we’re far from it, our house representatives never EVER read proposals before they’re passed,and…add your own data. The list is long.

Sounds like left-wing propaganda to me. I am an American engineer and no foreigner can hold a candle to me. If you’re not happy with the United States, please ride on an American-made Boeing jet to whatever foreign land you like.

Anyone know anything about natural gas usage factors?

I have a court date schedule against my gas company and they are trying to settle with me however I refuse to take their offer as I believe they are still incorrectly calculating my billed usage. Just one example, one month my "actual usage" was 212 and they billed me for 342!

My gas company says it is calculated like this:

((Local Atmospheric Pressure + Set Pressure) / Absolute Pressure)* BTU Factor = Usage Factor

Inserting my numbers makes my calculation as follows:
12.22 + 10 = 22.22 / 14.73 = 1.508486 * 1.064 = 1.61 (my usage factor)

My concern lies not only with what appears to be a VERY HIGH usage factor, but also with the fact that my neighbor is charged at a usage factor of only 0.90 and we SHARE A GAS LINE! His meter is smaller but everyone I talk to tells me meter size should have NO bearing on usage factor.

(Also alarming is the fact that after MONTHS of calling to complain about another billing error due to a main/sub meter issue, they admitted they had been billing me at too high a UF, 1.78, but all they did was drop it slightly with no explanation.

I would HIGHLY appreciate any enlightenment you can offer. I don’t want to be bought just to "go away" and stop spreading the word about the fact they are crooks!

THANKS FOR READING THIS!

Have an awesome day!!!

I agree with 1st answer that the neighbor’s number relative to yours is highly suspect, but I can’t reconcile either the formula or the numbers you give with an identifiable correction factor.
As I understand it from the ref. web page, the pressure-ratio part of the usage factor formula is a "density factor" that compensates for the fact that the meter doesn’t measure the actual amount of gas you use but the volume of the gas, and the volume of a given quantity of gas varies inversely with the supply pressure. Their formula is
density factor = (line press. + atm. press.) / atm. press.
Note that in such a formula, line pressure is what is often called "gauge pressure" and is the difference between the line absolute press. and the atmospheric press. So the formula is equivalent to
density factor = absolute press./atmos. press., which, ignoring temp. differences, is valid as an indicator of relative gas density.
In fact, whenever you see X pressure + atmospheric pressure you can be pretty sure that the sum is absolute pressure, and X pressure is gauge pressure.
Therefore the formula you quote,
(Local Atmospheric Pressure + Set Pressure) / Absolute Pressure, strongly suggests that Set Pressure is the gauge pressure of the line, same as "line pressure" in the 1st formula, which means that both the denominator and the numerator of the fraction are absolute pressure! And when you look at the numbers you put into that formula, things get more baffling. The only number I recognize is the numerator, 14.73 which is typical atmos. pressure in English units (psi). How can that be absolute pressure, and how did you calculate these numbers?
Anyway, getting back to the ref. web page, you will see that line pressure is an assumed value and is not always constant. Now possibly you receive gas at a higher pressure than your neighbor, but if so I’d think it’s up to the gas co. to prove it to your satisfaction.

Getting the Facts on Coal versus Natural Gas and the move to clean, reliable and safe energy generation in Ontario.

The Oakville Generating Station will be a clean, safe and reliable 900 MW high efficiency combined cycle, natural gas electricity generating station addressing the security of power supply for the south-west GTA.

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Three gas companies are suing Ukrainian one. Is Ukraine wrong and Russia is right?
It is interesting to see that nobody in EU is actually going to sue Russian Gas Company.
Does this mean that Russian Gas Company is right and Ukrainian is wrong?

Hungarian company Emfesz has turned up the heat in the gas standoff by lodging a complaint with the EU against Ukraine and Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state oil company, for a breach of supply agreements.
A spokesman for Emfesz told theparliament.com on Friday, “We have suffered commercial losses due to the fact that some state-owned companies did not fulfil their commitment to deliver the gas passed to them for Emfesz – the gas that we own in Ukrainian storage.”
Emfesz, the second biggest natural gas importer to Hungary, has also filed a suit against Naftogaz in a Hungarian court, and expects other countries in the EU to follow its lead. “I’m sure we won’t be alone in this,” the Emfesz spokesman added.
http://euobserver.com/9/27374
http://www.eupolitix.com/latestnews/news-article/newsarticle/hungarys-emfesz-lodges-eu-complaint-against-ukraine/

“Gazprom has taken the decision to file a lawsuit with the Stockholm international arbitration court to force Naftogaz Ukrainy to secure unimpeded transit of Russian gas to Europe across Ukraine.
The lawsuit will be filed in accordance with the Contract of June 21, 2002 on the volumes and terms of Russian natural gas transit across Ukraine to European consumers over 2003-2013.
As part of this lawsuit Gazprom will ask the court to adopt in the shortest possible time provisional measures prohibiting Naftogaz Ukrainy to take any actions aimed at reducing the Russian gas transit to Europe.
I have notified Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the planned legal action and he has approved this decision.
All the necessary documents will be prepared and sent to Stockholm in the nearest future,” OAO Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller told reporters.
http://www.gazprom.com/eng/news/2009/01/33506.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/04/russia.ukraine.gas.gazprom/

RosUkrEnergo AG has filed two lawsuits against Ukraine’s Naftogaz Ukrainy with the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute, RosUkrEnergo said in a statement.

"Naftogaz Ukrainy fails to honor its commitments under the existing contract with RosUkrEnergo AG for the lifting and transportation of natural gas from underground gas terminals, hence disrupting the transit of RosUkrEnergo AG-owned natural gas for our counteragents in the European Union," RosUkrEnergo AG press secretary Andrei Knutov told Interfax on Saturday.
http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/4287/

More links:
http://www.congoo.com/news/related?story_id=64809877&category_id=250&channel_id=65
Quote:
"You can’t believe any of the news stories because people lie, cover up, and fabricate evidence. You can never know who is "right" from reading or listening to the media."
Yes, but this why the decision who is right can be seen in the court.
Every other sentence in your text consists of lies, based on covered up truth and fabricated evidence.

You can’t believe any of the news stories because people lie, cover up, and fabricate evidence. You can never know who is "right" from reading or listening to the media.

For decades before they got their independence, the Ukrainian people suffered at the hands of the soviets (a.k.a. the Russians). The soviets committed genocide against the Ukrainian people, raped the Ukrainian lands of resources, and then enslaved the remaining Ukrainian people. Before than, the people in Western Ukraine suffered (albeit to a lesser extent) at the hands of the Austro-Hungarians.
See: http://www.ukrainiangenocide.com/
And: http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit11212005/worldwatch.asp

I know that most of the Russians alive today were not directly responsible for the atrocities of their parents and grandparents, but the wealth to be seen in their cities today was gathered, to a great extent, from the sweat and tears of the Ukrainian peasants during the time of soviet oppression.

I know that two wrongs don’t make a right, but IF the Ukrainians are not in the "right", I don’t care. I would call it the start of payback or a down payment towards RESTITUTION!

For me, wondering if the Russians might be right in this oil disagreement is like wondering if the khmer rouge, osama, or the nazis might have been right about something.

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In particular, it would probably be good to start with natural gas and coal.

I don’t mean to be rude, but opinions without a basis in fact are not helpful. Sources and figures are appreciated.

Note:
Inflammatory comments and personal attacks are against the community guidelines and will not be tolerated. Let’s behave like adults.

Fossil fuel
A substance found in the layers of the Earth that can be burned and is formed by the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Oil, natural gas, peat, and coal are fossil fuels.

Given this definition fossil fuels are finite. However based on our current knowledge of the amounts available, we are using fossil fuels faster than they are being made.

There are some geologists that think that petroleum and natural gas have a different method of formation that does not require vast amounts of plant matter. If their theory is correct, oil and gas are made continuously and migrating to the upper crust where it is trapped and then pumped out. The USA for instance has several hundred years supply of coal. The issue is the by products of combustion.

The US Geological Survey is a good place to do research on this question.

Unfortunately it is true.
It’s unlikely FOX would run this story, but it is a fact.

United Arab Emurates…Capitol, Dubai. Their main trade is with Iran. Same country we tried to outsource port security to. They have enough oil and natural gas to last many generations, why do they want this technology??

it’s nothing new. reagon sold weapons to Iran, And Carter supported Iraq in their war against Iran

I know they are a lot more expensive.
Are there electrical parts that need replacing by high paid technicians.
I can replace the old tank type myself for about $350.00.
Can you install the high tech type by yourself or do you need a lot of
training..
I’m leaning toward the old fashion type.
What do you think? Wile it may save some money on natural gas, what about any high price repairs.. And the fact that they start at about 6 or 7 hundred dollars.
I used an electric one in Europe and it was less than satisfactory.

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thanks david and chicagirl, i think you have helped me to make up my mind. I’m going with the old fashioned.
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BOTH BENEFITS AND DRAWBACK/ WEIGH THE BENEFITS/ DRAWBACKS AND COME TO YOUR CONCLUSION

Benefits and Drawbacks of Going Tankless
If you’re considering making the switch to a tankless water heater, you should carefully weigh the pros and cons first.

Benefits:

Most tankless units come with a federal tax rebate of $300.
They never run out of hot water.
They last five to 10 years longer than tank heaters.
They’re more efficient with no standby heat loss.
They take up less space and can even be installed on walls or outdoors with an anti-freeze kit.
Smaller units can be installed under cabinets or in a closet, closer to the point of use.
They only need enough power to heat the amount of water necessary at any given moment.
You can shave as much as 20 percent from your water heating bill.
Electric models don’t produce greenhouse gases.
Most units are operated by remote control and have up to four separate settings available.
There’s no possibility of flooding due to a ruptured tank.

Drawbacks:

They cost up to three times as much as a tank water heater.
Your hot water output is split among all your household fixtures.
You may need to add a larger natural gas line to supply the unit with enough fuel.
Venting gas and propane units requires expensive stainless steel tubing.
Electric models may require an additional circuit.
Gas-powered units produce greenhouse gases.
Gas units require the additional expense of an annual servicing.
Electric models require a lot of energy.
They need a minimum flow rate of .5 GPM in order to activate the heat exchanger.
Lag time can require you to run your water in order to get to the hot water, increasing water waste.

Other Considerations:

Water heating accounts for about 20 percent of your home energy budget.
A whole-house electric model costs $500-$700.
A whole-house gas model costs $1,000-$2,000.
Electric models are generally cheaper to install than gas.
Natural gas is less expensive now, but expected to surpass electricity in the coming years.
A standard bathtub holds about 35 gallons, soaking tubs hold between 45-80 gallons.
downside of gas tankless water heaters
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