Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:15:29 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3nmgp1F29d74U1 > @individual.net: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >>> Rick Savoia wrote: >>> >>>> 30% of the US oil production comes from that area and there is no way >>>> to access that for the time being. >>> >>> Only partial shut downs for a lot of the area and you can always dip >>> into the national oil reserves. >> >> Between last night and this morning, gas (petrol) prices went up 22 >> cents at the station closest to me. > > Price gouging and looting, it's the American way? > Seriously, you chaps should try running a car in any other developed > nation in the world, you'ld get the screaming abdabs at the price of > petrol. You chaps should try acquiring some land mass. It would let you see how well your gas prices stack up to a 100 mile/day commute, which lots of folks manage daily. -- Jim .