Reply #2: Thank You! Scary thing is,the price of aluminum is already high...

[DianaForRussFeingold]

When I was a kid, instead of aluminum and plastic, there were glass bottles-- recyclables,
2 cents a bottle deposit..
I would use my red wagon to return them--Buy more pop and penny candy with the money!

Your post reminded me of this article from Sunday's Post Gazette;
"Coal price soars, electric rates close behind"
Sunday, July 27, 2008
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'Price on spot market has quadrupled since 2000'

A coal barge works its way along the Monongahela River near the Homestead Grays Bridge.

"The spot price for northern Appalachian coal -- which includes coal mined in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia -- was $138 a ton last week, more than double the $55-a-ton price of a year ago and four times what it was in 2000.

Spurred by a tight coal market made tighter by a series of extreme weather events earlier this year in China, Australia and South Africa, the spike in coal prices could add another 30 percent to electric rates..."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08209/899839-28.stm