Consumer Spending. Just as many businesses operate with borrowed funds, many consumers use credit to finance and increase buying power, especially when making major purchases. Consequently, when interest rates go up, home sales go down. Sales of new automobiles and luxury items decrease.Payments on variable interest rate loans, such as mortgages, can increase significantly, further affecting consumer spending. This, in turn, causes a further dip in corporate profits as sales decline.onsumer Spending. Just as many businesses operate with borrowed funds, many consumers use credit to finance and increase buying power, especially when making major purchases. Consequently, when interest rates go up, home sales go down. Sales of new automobiles and luxury items decrease.
1 The cost to bury power lines will be around $20 to $40 per foot. 2  In highly urbanized areas the cost of underground transmission can be 10-14 times more expensive than overhead cable transmission. 3  Per home property, it could cost anywhere from $1,000 to $3,500 to have the lines buried. This type of electrical power transmission and distribution may decrease operational costs over the lifetime of cables. 2  It is more expensive since the cost of burying cables at transmission voltages is greater than overhead power lines. 3  The cost to bury power lines will be around $20 to $40 per foot.
Outside line to the street can run from as little as $10/LF in areas where the pipe is shallow (no annual frost penetration) and in easy digging soil, to $250/LF or more if deeply buried, have to excavate through trees and heavy roots or boulders, steep topography, other utility interferences etc.