Yes, that and an additional $50000 for a new car. Do you honestly think those things will be cheap?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
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Yes, that and an additional $50000 for a new car. Do you honestly think those things will be cheap?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
Yeah, it's a lot of money now, but after years of production, it will eventually be cheaper than gas cars...Quote:
Originally Posted by paraflyer
From what I understand from previous threads, you also have alot more options for public transportation than alot of us here in the US...so therefore you have more of an alternative...alot of us don't have a real viable one...... :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Yes, but will you still be young enough to drive? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
I think so...at very least my kids will have this...Quote:
Originally Posted by paraflyer
Headline news today on MSN:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/...1.asp?GT1=3391
Average gasoline price tops $2 a gallon
National gasoline prices crossed the $2 threshold for the first time ever. Fueled by high demand and the rising cost of crude oil, prices already are bumping up against highs forecast for June.
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“When it comes to crafting consumer-friendly energy policies, George Bush has been an abject failure,'' said a Kerry spokesman. “While gas prices skyrocket and consumers get pinched, oil companies are raking in record profits.''
The U.S. Energy Department had no immediate comment on the new record-high gasoline prices.
A group of Democratic senators on Tuesday plans to introduce a non-binding resolution asking the White House to release up to 60 million barrels of crude from the nation's emergency oil stockpile to help lower gasoline prices. The administration has said it would not take such an action unless there was a true supply emergency.
An anonymous e-mail circulating on the Internet urged U.S. consumers to take their revenge on oil companies over high gasoline prices by skipping any fuel purchases on Wednesday.
“May 19th has been formally declared 'Stick it to them' day and the people of this nation should not buy a single drop of gasoline that day,'' the message reads.
Also, an interesting read from snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm
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Origins: Ah, springtime! The season for a number of important renewing rituals: housecleaning, the beginning of baseball season, balancing eggs on their ends, and the forwarding of outraged e-mails calling for oil company boycotts.
This year's litany is the usual one: Gasoline prices in the USA are too high; gasoline is a unique commodity whose price isn't subject to the usual market forces of supply and demand; OPEC and greedy American oil companies have deluded us into believing that current gasoline prices are actually comparatively cheap while they secretly manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high; and a simple boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline will rectify all this. (It's amusing that calls for "gas outs" predictably occur every spring, just when gasoline prices start to rise with the increased demand that accompanies the better driving weather of spring. Why don't those evil oil companies, who can apparently control the market at will, conspire to jack up their prices during winter, when prices bottom out?)
Like I said before, we are a nation of gas guzzlers, and my bike gets 50mpg...if only I could carry a PC on my bike when delivering it, and darn those SW Florida afternoon rain storms.Quote:
The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.
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Sad but true: my island has less than ten thousand summer residents and damn if I don't see at least half a dozen hummers driving around with their noses up in the air.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2004/10/1.gif
Why don't we get the Major to send us down more oil from Alaska and buy less from overseas. The way I understand it, they've jacked up their prices per barrel so we've jacked up our prices per gallon. If we got more of our oil from home, one would think we could get it cheaper. Get your taps ready Major Kong. We're gonna have a kegger!
Now you're talking! Tea's been rising over here steadily for the last few months without anyone except me seeming to notice, before long we'll be passing the 2p a cup mark. I expect tea protests, marches in the streets and more. I hear we're all going to boycotting typhoo next Tuesday and are only allowed to dring pg tips for the day!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
Hey boo, kindly speaka de English.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Real men don't drink tea... :eek2:
So mister "man's man", what do they drink? https://forums.windrivers.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
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Napalm. But you got to stir it for a real long time... :flame:Quote:
Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
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Originally Posted by Coaster Creator
Are you telling me you have a worse public transport service than the UK? Jeepers you got it bad! Where I live there are two buses a day, one at 0700, the other at 1915. To get to a place 13 miles up the road, you have to take the 0700 bus in a completely opposite direction for 15 miles, then catch a bus heading back to another town where you change to get to your final destination.
Total trip time - 2hrs 35 minutes to go 13 miles.... and the tree-huggers want me to stop using my car.... :rolleyes:
I haven't yet figured out a bus route that will get me the 7 miles to where I work.
I like it with the flame on top :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know