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.
70% of underground utility damage is caused by backhoes and trenchers. 48% of the âhitsâ were on natural gas lines. 38% on telecommunication lines. According to research by contingency planning organizations, the cost of an electrical outage can exceed $1 million per hour for the average large business.here are more than 100 billion feet of underground utilities in the United States â more than one football fieldâs length of buried utilities for every man, woman and child in the U.S. 65% is on private property. 850 water main breaks occur in North America daily at an annual repair cost of over $3 billion.