On the other hand, if the industry scraps all of its smaller and older plants, Credit Suisse estimates, steam coal demand would drop by 15% to 30%, or as much as 324 million tons a year, while gas demand would increase 8% to 16%, or as much as 3 trillion cubic feet a year.
However, as the economy regains steam and loan demand increases, those excess reserves will enter the marketplace and increase nominal spending and prices.
While its drives were a boon in 1995 and 1996, when the internal hard drives of most PCs were much smaller, ever-bigger hard drives have taken a lot of steam out of demand.