Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] have you read the book midas world? Right-ontalk about prescient, if you can stand the quirkiness ... Pohl was undoubtedly the inspiration for the comedy writers of Seinfeld (just a guess), with his reductio ad absurdum of

RE: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Steck writes: There is no safe way to get 3 car seats / booster seats in any mid-size car or wagon. Mini-vans are ideal for that, and they get good mileage. Better than my station wagon. Good safety ratings too. The hybrid Explorer is a step in the right direction, but it's not

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-10 Thread leaking pen
have you read the book midas world? On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:52:29 -0800 (PST), Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Economics give me a headache, I must confess. It's very difficult to grasp; but, if energy is free, we have no need for

RE: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-10 Thread Terry Blanton
I just bought a Scion xB. My Echo was just a bit small; but, I still have it. The Scion is not exactly a SUV; but, it imitates one. I still have the Echo which gets around 38 mpg; but, the Scion isn't too shabby at 33 mpg. The amazing thing is that the Echo is almost 6 years old and has retained

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
leaking pen wrote: im sure the people in europe already paying about 5.00 a gallon hearts' bleed for us... So do people in the US, when you factor in the cost of war. Five dollars plus the lives of 1,500 young men and women. (Maybe it isn't exactly a war for oil, but we would not be in Iraq if

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed 03/09, leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow. youve got good gas prices. im in az. its 2.00 right now, expected to peak at 3.00 im sure the people in europe already paying about 5.00 a gallon hearts' bleed for us... Now let's review. The evil Big Oil Petrocracy has

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michael Foster wrote: Now let's review. The evil Big Oil Petrocracy has given us gasoline prices of $2 or so a gallon. On the other hand the, Enlightened Socialist Paradises of Europe have delivered near $6 per gallon gasoline. Hmmm. I do not think much of socialism but that is a

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread leaking pen
you might say it combines the worst features of capitalism and communism. as a someone who is a communist and a free market supporter (ones a government, ones an economy, there IS a difference) i agree completly. ive been saying that for years. On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:04:49 -0500, Jed Rothwell

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread leaking pen
scuse me. socialist and free market supporter. not communist. wrote socialist (not communist, there is a difference) and it got sliced up in the copy and paste from notepad and editing. bad editing, bad. no biscuit. pretty much, you have a cow. the government takes part of your milk, and

RE: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread John Steck
Bet that outrage doesn't stop you from driving...you patronize the system every time you fill up. The talk is easy, the walk is a whole lot harder. 8^) -j -Original Message-From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:05 PMTo: