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for surplus power the panels produce. They're traded for free power when the need arises. Ruben's wife, Virginia Vasquez, said electric bills run between $200 and $300 in the scorching summer months and between $150 to $200 during cooler periods. Advertisement Ruben expects the panels to save the Rialto family around $700 each year. Ruben discovered Real Goods' solar sweepstakes while researching home solar panels on the Internet.Rich shoppers are driving an increase in consumer spending, bolstering a recovery that masks reluctance among less affluent Americans to join in. Sales are up at Tiffany and Coach Inc., buoyed by demand for $6,000 diamond pendants and $1,200 leather handbags as a stock-market surge pads the wallets of the wealthy. At the other end of the economic spectrum, Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest discount retailer, reports "everyday Americans" are living paycheck to paycheck as they await an improvement in job prospects. "The heavy lifting is being done by the upper-income households," said Michael Feroli, a former Federal Reserve economist who is now chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase in New York. "They're the ones benefiting the most from the stock market rally, and they're spending." The uneven progress in household expenditures, w
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