DishNetwork Uplink Activity Report - 3/12/2008 6:31pm - 2 changes

[DigiSAT Uplink Report]

SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Report - Week Ending 03/15/2008 - 2 changes

Uplink Comparison Range: 03/12/2008 06:06P - 03/12/2008 06:31P

Channel Package Flag Changes:
9645 - LF1 [MPEG2 SD] - EchoStar8 110W TP 10 ConUS beam changed to Available

Channel Type Changes:
5848 - SPECV EchoStar1 148W TP 23 ConUS beam changed from MPEG2 SD to TV (NA)

Channels in the system: 3450
(A) = Available to subscribers
(NA) = Not Available

 

[DSpud]

What is LF1 ?

 

[Gentleman]

Shell Oil protecting the environment is on now

Bob

 

[DSpud]

I saw that. I just wonder what this station is exactly.

 

[darrencp22]

My guess, a place to put political / corporate ads.

 

[ripnbigc]

Free to Charlie, of course!

 

[ethernet2k]

It's an interactive channel at the moment. Press 'Select'. A movie by Shell is being shown now ("Clearing the Air". You can also it free on DVD via the interactive application.

More about the film @ 'Clearing the air' film

 

[DSpud]

Thank you Shell Oil for making this documentary, as now I feel so much better payin 3.30 per gallon of gasoline

 

[RandallA]

Thank you Shell Oil for making this documentary, as now I feel so much better payin 3.30 per gallon of gasoline

$3.30? That's cheap. We're paying $3.76 and in some areas $3.99 in California.

 

[jansan]

$3.14 in Kentucky. I can not imagine paying $4 at the pump

 

[ripnbigc]

$3.14 in Kentucky. I can not imagine paying $4 at the pump

I think you better start imagining. Unfortunately!

 

[DSpud]

No kidding. I couldn't imagine paying 2 dollar, I sure as hell never expected the norm to be 3 dollars.....No I just grin and bear it, what else can you do?

 

[jayn_j]

No kidding. I couldn't imagine paying 2 dollar, I sure as hell never expected the norm to be 3 dollars.....No I just grin and bear it, what else can you do?

I just sit back and smile at the way the oil companies play the public. Gas goes up $.50/gal in the course of 2 weeks. Everybody screams bloody murder. A couple of weeks later, it goes down $.20 and everybody sighs in relief. Net result is a permanent $.30/gal increase and everybody is kind of content.

 

[kstuart]

I just sit back and smile at the way the oil companies play the public. Gas goes up $.50/gal in the course of 2 weeks. Everybody screams bloody murder. A couple of weeks later, it goes down $.20 and everybody sighs in relief. Net result is a permanent $.30/gal increase and everybody is kind of content.

The problem with that theory is that the price of Oil is out of control of the Oil Companies.

A lot of the Oil price increase over the past few years is due to Wall Street speculators, some of it is due to increased world-wide consumption (in places like Brazil, India and China which suddenly have hundreds of millions of new middle class consumers), and the rest is due to political tension in the Middle East.

 

[ncted]

The problem with that theory is that the price of Oil is out of control of the Oil Companies.

A lot of the Oil price increase over the past few years is due to Wall Street speculators, some of it is due to increased world-wide consumption (in places like Brazil, India and China which suddenly have hundreds of millions of new middle class consumers), and the rest is due to political tension in the Middle East.

Lately, it has more to do with the weak dollar than anything. OPEC is scared at $110/barrel oil. Supplies are fine at the moment, and US consumption actually decreased 1% last year. The worthless dollar has caused the run up in gas and gold prices.

Ted

 

[jayn_j]

The problem with that theory is that the price of Oil is out of control of the Oil Companies.

A lot of the Oil price increase over the past few years is due to Wall Street speculators, some of it is due to increased world-wide consumption (in places like Brazil, India and China which suddenly have hundreds of millions of new middle class consumers), and the rest is due to political tension in the Middle East.

Agreed it is complex, but the tactics are all the oil companies' If they need to raise prices by X, they could just do it and blame crude. However, it is my understanding that crude prices are still not the major factor in gas prices.

And if you don't think they have flexibility here:

Exxon Mobil said Friday record oil prices boosted its fourth-quarter earnings to $11.66 billion, the highest ever operating profit by a U.S. company.
Exxon Earnings Soar on Record Oil Prices - Earnings * US * News * Story - MSNBC.com

And that's when consumption was down 1%!

 

[long_time_DNC]

Freakin' gas is 3.51 here and 3.99 up in Friday Harbor. This is just nuts! The space shuttle fleet (once in orbit) has been running on hydrogen fuel cells for electrical generation for 30 years and they're just now adapting that tech for cars??! Something smells seriously wrong up on Capital Hill, and it isn't flatulence...

 

[ptuck874]

what really neeeds to be done and nobody wants to hear it, is up the fed rate to about 7.0%, inflation is causing this run up in prices, if they would just raise the rates, the value of the dollar would go up (since who wants to invest in the dollar for a losey 2.25% intrest rate where other countries get 3 or 4 times that), and the price of oil would go down, its as simple as that you think oil companies are bad, go look at wall street and their ilk, remember "greed is good"

 

[long_time_DNC]

It's also the low worth of the dollar that makes oil $110/barrel...that, and China and India buying it up as fast as they can...

 

[kstuart]

It's bad enough having to go to a special separate Forum for the Uplink Reports - please keep the totally irrelevant political discussions out of these threads at least ! Thanks !