Re: [Biofuel] US oil war game mpg

2005-07-01 Thread Newdlhead
In a message dated 6/30/05 11:10:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to put a frown on the face of [Saudi] Wahhabis, talk about 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles, Woolsey said. We don't need a Manhattan Project to do it. It cannot be that difficult as

Re: [Biofuel] US oil war game mpg

2005-07-01 Thread John Hayes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/30/05 11:10:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to put a frown on the face of [Saudi] Wahhabis, talk about 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles, Woolsey said. We don't need a Manhattan Project to do it. It

RE: [Biofuel] US oil war game mpg

2005-07-01 Thread Mel Riser
Title: RE: [Biofuel] US oil war game mpg i test drove a Jetta TDI and a Passat TDI last week. Trying to get my wife to trde our mini-van in on one of these. She wants something bigger as she has gotten spoiled on the size of the Venture. and it does get decent mileage for it's size. We

Re: [Biofuel] US oil war game

2005-07-01 Thread capt3d
there was a car maker (don't remember the name) here in the usa which had very comparable performance. fairly sizeable vehicles, too; not puny little things like the nash metropolitan. they disappeared somewhere around the '50s. -chris b. In a message dated 6/30/05 9:10:27 AM, [EMAIL

Re: [Biofuel] US oil war game mpg

2005-07-01 Thread robert luis rabello
Mel Riser wrote: i test drove a Jetta TDI and a Passat TDI last week. We looked at them, too. My wife really wants one, but we can't afford a Jetta. Nonetheless, the car looked VERY impressive! I could slide the driver's seat back to an exceedingly comfortable position, and a full

Re: [Biofuel] US oil war game

2005-06-30 Thread Hakan Falk
I am surprised if this is the first time they did this, but is was done by former officials. Maybe this war game was only an alibi, to be able to bring the issues out in the open. It would be enormously if the sitting administration have not done this frequently during the last 20 years and

RE: [Biofuel] US oil war game

2005-06-30 Thread Chris Lloyd
If you want to put a frown on the face of [Saudi] Wahhabis, talk about 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles, Woolsey said. We don't need a Manhattan Project to do it. It cannot be that difficult as Austin Cars in the UK used to advertise their Model 7 as Doing 100 mph and 100 mpg (UK gallon) and

[Biofuel] US oil war game

2005-06-29 Thread MH
Outcome Grim at Oil War Game Former Officials Fail to Prevent Recession in Mock Energy Crisis By John Mintz Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, June 24, 2005; Page A19 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301896.html The United States would be all but