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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 11/14/2006, you wrote:
> >Home Depot cuts outlook amid housing downturn
> >http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061114/retail_homedepot_earns.html?.v=7
>
> In the midst of the bad news, the article had this:
>
> "In the Home Depot Supply segment that caters to home builders and
> other contractors, sales more than doubled to $3.5 billion, helped by
> acquisitions."

That phrase "helped by acquisitions" is the important point.  This is not 
new business but business brought in with the purchase of other 
businesses.  HD has been trying to get into the contractor supply business, 
the people who will deliver a housing development sized pile of lumber.   I 
read a recent article that listed some of the companies purchased but I 
think it is either in the trailer or in storage.  It was either a "Business 
Week" article or "Fine Homebuilding" within the last year.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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At 11/14/2006, you wrote:
> Drew, there is no oil in oil shale to pump out.  It is in the form of a very
> heavy, viscous substance, kerogen.

It is sometimes called Tar Sands.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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Here's a guy who worked hard, figured out a way to get milk to 
consumers cheaper than anyone else and he is being screwed by 
organized milk and the DC Whorehouse. The major losers are consumers:

Maverick dairyman fights lobbyists and lawmakers
Arizona milk mogul battling with his industry

Scott Wong and Kelly Carr
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Long before he discovered a way to sell milk for far less than his 
competitors, before he enraged the multibillon-dollar dairy industry 
so much that Congress passed a law to stop him, Hein Hettinga clipped 
cow hooves for a living.

It was menial work. But it put him on a career path that, in time, 
would lead him to found Yuma-based Sarah Farms, one of the largest 
and most innovative private dairy operations in the country.

Now, 12 years after building his dairy business into a proverbial 
cash cow, Hettinga finds himself waging war against big-dairy 
lobbyists, high-profile lawmakers and the federal government.

The rest of the article is at:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1114dairy1114.html