RE: [ZION] Gas pains

2004-03-18 Thread Gerald Smith
GPS can be turned off, one way or another. Or, we can always choose older model cars without, and just keep them up. I mean, if they can drive 50+ year old cars in Havannah, I think we can manage with 5-10 year old cars. Gary Grampa Bill in Savannah wrote: > > Gerald Smith wrote: > > >One th

RE: [ZION] Gas pains

2004-03-17 Thread Sara Peterson
d Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ZION] Gas pains Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:03:32 + Except that we would lose millions of jobs during the transition from a personal vehicle society to a mass transit one. One thing I've come to belie

Re: [ZION] Gas pains

2004-03-17 Thread Grampa Bill in Savannah
Gerald Smith wrote: One thing I've come to believe is that personal access to transportation is as important to freedom as is the right to bear arms. It is much easier to track people on trains and planes than it is driving their cars across country. === Grampa Bill commen

RE: [ZION] Gas pains

2004-03-17 Thread Gerald Smith
Except that we would lose millions of jobs during the transition from a personal vehicle society to a mass transit one. One thing I've come to believe is that personal access to transportation is as important to freedom as is the right to bear arms. It is much easier to track people on trains

RE: [ZION] Gas pains

2004-03-15 Thread John W. Redelfs
John A. English, n/OEF wrote: Dear Jim, Supply would be greater without the Iraq invasion, so prices would be lower. Supply/demand would force prices lower. It is also not the end of the world if we have to just do without cars. We existed before they were here, we will exist when they

RE: [ZION] Gas pains (long)

2004-03-15 Thread Jonathan Scott
Guess what I've been working on? Here's some data I've been collecting recently. The first column is how much gas actually was way back when. The second column is how much we would have to pay for that same gallon of gas using today's dollars. The third number is the percentage of the 1950

RE: [ZION] Gas pains

2004-03-15 Thread John A. English, n/OEF
Dear Jim, Supply would be greater without the Iraq invasion, so prices would be lower. Supply/demand would force prices lower. It is also not the end of the world if we have to just do without cars. We existed before they were here, we will exist when they are gone. Peace and all good,