Re: gas prices, alternative fuels, some WOB

["Ron J" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Love the Rant!! even if its Off Topic..

Well Said!!

Cheers
Ron J
Wishing there was gas at $1.50 a gallon up here in Toronto Canada, where 1
liter of premium runs $0.79 (3.8 liters in a gallon)  approx $3.00 a gallon.
After Exchange its about $2.25..

Its all about OIL!

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From: "jkerouac" <jkerouac@domain.elided>
To: "bmw digest" <bmw-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: re: gas prices, alternative fuels, some WOB


> re: gas prices:
>
>      When I see the same $1.34/gallon on the east coast for premium that
> I payed twenty years ago which continued with only minor fluctuations
> until only recently when the Shrubbery raped and pillaged our national
> economy in the name of keeping the world 'safe for democracy', but
> actually just safe for his oil company buddied who bought his election,
>  then it may be something to rejoice about.
>      Why is it that a lid was kept on gas prices  by the father of the
> Shrub during 'US saves business partner so we can keep buying oil from
> them', round 1?  Why were gas prices, and energy prices in general,
> relatively stable during the reign of Billary the First, no matter what
> was happening in the world?  Even when the price per bbl. of crude was
> last as high as it hit recently, why was the price at the pump at least
> half a buck a gallone less?  Why did we have a growing economy?  Why was
> the US successful in building consensus in the world community before
> undertaking military action in global hot spots?  Why did those same
> partners in consensus of the past now say no?  Maybe they're onto
> something that the White House Shrubbery isn't, like common sense?
>      I remember honest and realistic fair market at work 97 cents a
> gallon of regular, $1.15 for premium that I paid for California legal
> gas on a trip to Comdex in Las Vegas only one and a half short years
> ago, before the thugs in the White House, one of whom Exxon even named
> an oil tanker after, threw 20 years of relative stability in gas prices
> away and doubled the cost of a gallon of gas in only two short years.
> We knocked off Saddam, but any student of world history could call it
> "Missile Crisis II".
> 40 years ago JFK showed the United Nations conclusive pictures of
> missiles in Cuba.  The world couldn't say a word but to agree that
> Russia should remove them.  the Bush mentailty 40 years ago would have
> given us WWIII.  His actions now are still on track to cause it anyway.
>      Why did Kissinger really quit the 911 comission?  Why does he speak
> out now in favor or UN, not US control of rebuilding Iraq?
>      Show me the pictures Georgie boy.  Show me and the rest of the
> world what your excuse was.  Why do we have 150 dead of our young and
> brave, when we could have continued following the basic policy of
> containment that has worked in Cuba, Libya, and other hot spots in the
> world for 50 years.  There would have been the dilution of those in
> power, even if they still run their governments.
>      What happens now when the free Kurds want their own country?  What
> happens when long time military ally, but muslim country Turkey, says
> no?  Remember the Turkey angle with Russia removing the missiles from
> Cuba?  What happens when the Saudi's are cut out of the major oil
> profits and Iraq, Inc. has sweetheart deals with American oil companies.
>  To the Arab Sheiks, we're business partners.  Nothing more.
>      All I can say to this crap now is, "the King is Dead", long live
> the King."
> And please let's not have another pretty boy new england democratic dork
> be our only option to get Alfred E. Neuman, masquerading as the
> President of the United States, out of the White House next year.
>      Which brings up another possible fuel source, one which has been
> around for millions of years here on earth.  A source which most mammals
> produce periodically, and which the current world situation gives me in
> major doses.  Methane. :-)
>      But if the smell of the president's bull$`!t and the cost of a
> gallon of gas doesn't come down soon, its gonna do something else to my
> gastric system instead, it will produce something that the biomass fuel
> engineers would be able to make fuel out of, becuase it will make me puke.
>
> 'jk
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