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2007-05-26 Thread j maccraw
time trying to max up a TDI and pay over 30k even with leather/gps/etc. The benz diesel is of course a mercedes and is north of 50K From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil

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2007-05-23 Thread Neil Davidson
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: 23 May 2007 01:33 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Evil or The problem (as I understand it) is that oil gets set a price of $X no matter where it comes from. I think this price is set by the people

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2007-05-22 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Nor will I after a VW Beetle blew its engine while driving flat-out on a cross-country trip in 1968. Worst handling car I ever drove! Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - Never will I ever own another VW.

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2007-05-22 Thread Hayes Elkins
Las Vegas used to be a big empty desert decades ago too... From: Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:19:07 -0700 Nor will I after a VW

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2007-05-22 Thread j maccraw
Yeah yeah, I hear all the time from accross the pond how we shouldn't complain. Bah, we make a large part of our own oil so we should be complaining when that it's too expensive! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be thankful you don't live in the UK 1 UKP per LITRE.

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2007-05-22 Thread j maccraw
Love my girlfriend's Jetta TDI! Even with higher diesel prices it's like paying half the cost of unleaded because of the mileage she gets commuting. 50+ MPG doing a 100mi round trip commute 4 days a week and refilling once a week or longer. Hayes Elkins wrote: The VW Jetta TDI that gets

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2007-05-22 Thread FORC5
Are those not pretty expensive cars ? fp At 05:38 AM 5/22/2007, j maccraw Poked the stick with: Love my girlfriend's Jetta TDI! Even with higher diesel prices it's like paying half the cost of unleaded because of the mileage she gets commuting. 50+ MPG doing a 100mi round trip commute 4 days a

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2007-05-22 Thread Hayes Elkins
hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 06:37:20 -0700 Are those not pretty expensive cars ? fp At 05:38 AM 5/22/2007, j maccraw Poked the stick with: Love my girlfriend's Jetta TDI! Even with higher diesel prices it's like paying half the cost of unleaded

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2007-05-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:26 AM 22/05/2007, j maccraw wrote: Bah, we make a large part of our own oil so we should be complaining when that it's too expensive! It's my understanding that the US imports most of its oil. T

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2007-05-22 Thread Greg Sevart
To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Evil or At 09:26 AM 22/05/2007, j maccraw wrote: Bah, we make a large part of our own oil so we should be complaining when that it's too expensive! It's my understanding that the US imports most of its oil. T

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2007-05-22 Thread Neil Davidson
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw Sent: 22 May 2007 13:26 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Yeah yeah, I hear all the time from accross the pond how we shouldn't complain. Bah, we make a large part of our own oil so we should be complaining when that it's too

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2007-05-22 Thread j maccraw
To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Yeah yeah, I hear all the time from accross the pond how we shouldn't complain. Bah, we make a large part of our own oil so we should be complaining when that it's too expensive

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2007-05-22 Thread Ben Ruset
The problem (as I understand it) is that oil gets set a price of $X no matter where it comes from. I think this price is set by the people who buy and sell oil as a commodity. The only impact they feel is that the limo is a little more expensive to run from month to month. j maccraw wrote:

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2007-05-21 Thread Ben Ruset
That's about what Premium is around here (NJ) now. Jin-Wei Tioh wrote: At 11:53 AM 5/20/2007, you wrote: Filled up this morning and noticed the gas station had the pump wrong. Always nice to pay $1.34 a gallon for premium Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless WTF?!?! I just pumped 13

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2007-05-21 Thread Jason.Tozer
Be thankful you don't live in the UK 1 UKP per LITRE. Regards, Jason Tozer Database Analyst London Ext 1131 - 3SC.5 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: 21 May 2007 15:11 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Evil

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2007-05-21 Thread Hayes Elkins
?, but I'm not having much luck ;) From: Jin-Wei Tioh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 22:09:35 -0500 At 11:53 AM 5/20/2007, you wrote

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2007-05-21 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 09:19 AM 5/21/2007, you wrote: 14.5 gallons of american made, $3.00 (not a cent of which goes to any filthy, terror-supporting-by-proxy, middle eastern oil cartel), biodiesel here, B100 grade. There are now several B100 suppliers in the MD/VA/DC area. The B20 pump at the Pentagon is filth

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2007-05-21 Thread JRS
Major pet peeve of mine. There are tons of diesels out there that kick the sh*t outta the hybrids in mileage and proven longevity, but we are not allowed to buy them here for some damn reason. Instead, they push these hybrids on us. Let's see, longer engine life, vastly improved mileage, less

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2007-05-21 Thread Hayes Elkins
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:02:56 -0700 Major pet peeve of mine. There are tons of diesels out there that kick the sh*t outta the hybrids in mileage and proven longevity, but we are not allowed to buy them here for some damn reason. Instead, they push

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2007-05-21 Thread JRS
Oh, I know the reason why, the idiot environmentalists in my and other states. :( But they have not been valid reasons for a long time as far as I am concerned. As you said, the diesel of today is not what it was back in the 70's My concern is I want a small high mileage diesel pickup

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2007-05-21 Thread Winterlight
As far as why diesels for consumers are so rare, you can thank the antiquated hippy laws in states like California that perhaps at one point were noble due to diesel fuel being more polluting back in the 1970s. As someone who received an Environmental Study Degree, in the state of

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2007-05-21 Thread JRS
Me too. either that, or a nice Nissan Frontier Diesel. Nissan's diesels are very very reliable worldwide too.. However, I am looking forward to a Diesel Toyota truck. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get one that is made in Japan. -- JRS[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove

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2007-05-21 Thread FORC5
what gets that kind of mileage ? AFAIK this bio stuff is not available here (AZ) fp At 03:26 PM 5/21/2007, Hayes Elkins Poked the stick with: I also get around 45 - 50 mpg depending on traffic and if the AC is on. I'm currently looking for a bumper sticker that says Unlike hybrids, I actually

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2007-05-21 Thread Hayes Elkins
fuel efficient 'vette, and the Jetta TDI: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060424/FREE/60417021SearchID=73244466514443 From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil

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2007-05-21 Thread Hayes Elkins
Also, biodiesel is available in AZ http://www.biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/retailfuelingsites/showstate.asp?st=AZ From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Mon, 21

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2007-05-21 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:12:26 -0700 As someone who received an Environmental Study Degree, in the state of California

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2007-05-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Hayes Elkins wrote: Low sulfur diesel is available right now. What you are probably thinking of is the blue-tec line of diesel engine cars coming out in model year 08. Mercedes Benz 220 and VW Jetta, to name a few. What's great about these engines is more horsepower and torque per liter yet

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2007-05-21 Thread FORC5
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:04:40 -0700 what gets that kind of mileage ? AFAIK this bio stuff is not available here (AZ) fp At 03:26 PM 5/21/2007, Hayes Elkins Poked the stick with: I also get around 45 - 50 mpg depending

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2007-05-21 Thread FORC5
://www.biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/retailfuelingsites/showstate.asp?st=AZ From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:04:40 -0700 what gets that kind of mileage

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2007-05-20 Thread tmservo
Filled up this morning and noticed the gas station had the pump wrong. Always nice to pay $1.34 a gallon for premium Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless

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2007-05-20 Thread Brian Weeden
That is pretty sweet. -- Brian On 5/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filled up this morning and noticed the gas station had the pump wrong. Always nice to pay $1.34 a gallon for premium Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless

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2007-05-20 Thread tmservo
Yep. On shawnee Mission pkwy Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:53:59 To:'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Evil or Was it in JoCo somewhere, by chance

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2007-05-20 Thread Greg Sevart
To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Yep. On shawnee Mission pkwy Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:53:59 To:'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Evil

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2007-05-20 Thread tmservo
Yeah filling up the 20 gallon tank on my van.. I'd take $23 over $68 any day. :) Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:14:55 To:'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Evil

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2007-05-20 Thread Jeff Lane
I hope the guys in the black suv's don't start following youExxon and the Arabs will be watchinghope they get heartburn big-time :) Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [H] Evil or Yeah filling up the 20 gallon tank on my van.. I'd take $23 over $68 any day

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2007-05-20 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 11:53 AM 5/20/2007, you wrote: Filled up this morning and noticed the gas station had the pump wrong. Always nice to pay $1.34 a gallon for premium Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless WTF?!?! I just pumped 13 gallons of 87 for $3.25/gallon! :( -- JW