Xcel's new transformers to use soy oil

Xcel Energy today will unveil one of the first of thousands of soy oil electrical transformers it plans to install in Minnesota this year as part of a plan to switch to agriculturally based resources in all its ...

[Mary Jane]

Good for XCel! The less we need foreign oil, the better off we'll be!

[Dave]

To bad we don't drill our own.

[Owl Gore]

The transformers have a fever!

[concerned]

Too bad we don't have reserves enough to drill our own and actually influence the prices.

[Andy]

I refuse to call it "Big Soy."

[Common Sense]

Keep it up Xcel!

[swschrad]

now if a transformer gets hit by lightning and burns/blows up, we'll have the lovely smell of french fries to wake up to!

[seriously]

Apparently they haven't learned the corn lesson yet - don't burn your food.

[Madman]

After resisting "green" technology for years, it is great to see Excel actually taking the lead.

Congratulations!!

[Mike]

Typical capitalist public relations strategy. Since there is a ban on using PCBs (polychlorinated biphenols)due to their toxic nature, options have been out there for more than 25 years. They need transformers and the only ones available now are cooled with environmentally friendlier fluids, and besides, I'm sure that in this republican regime's recent energy policy/bill there's some serious coin to be applied to help decrease xcel's taxes paid and that my friends is the rest of the story!

[david01]

soy oil?????? b.f.d. they still have increased our bills every month with some PHONY rate increases... wow i say increase as much as xSTEAL uses it.....