Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Thank you. Our first question is from Mr. Jim Rollyson with Raymond James. Please state your question.
James Rollyson - Raymond James
Good morning, everyone.
Baxter Phillips
Good morning, Jim.
James Rollyson - Raymond James
Hey, Don, obviously with the updated guidance on pricing and some of your commentary, obviously some of the customers not honoring their contracts, I was going to joke to you about getting soft but won't do that. Can you maybe just spend a minute on what you think, you have obviously signed contracts to pretty good prices and it sounds like some of those are gone up, but kind of what you are thinking and your current guidance is for steam in net pricing? Kind of what's embedded there?
Don Blankenship
Well, as far as any on the sole terms we have very little, but we would probably still be 125, 150 on different types of metco if we were passing. But what we've done in our current numbers is tried to take the feedback from the customers as far as blast furnaces that were down, as far as their expectations on their business and even some judgments as to their viability and so forth and reflect as best we could what we think the results will be.
James Rollyson - Raymond James
Do you expect down the road that assuming those guys survive when things get better somehow they will work on making this is up to you or are there is just pretty much lost opportunity?
Don Blankenship
There will be some opportunity to make it up but there will be some customers that will, if you will mitigate the damage there will be others that won't. It's the hot spot. We've got everything from customers just saying nothing we can do to customers saying we want to work with you, take it over a longer period of time, customers who're desiring discounts. So it's a hard spot and quite frankly each one of them are unique in one way or some way. So it's hard to describe them with a general statement.
James Rollyson - Raymond James
Got you. And then just lastly maybe you could give us the kind of net versus steam breakdown in the new guided tons for '09 and '010 as you see it now?
Don Blankenship
Yeah. I think we've got about 10 out of 45 or so, that's may and the other 35 is industrial steam and it's probably three or four industrial and the rest of it steam.
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