Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:23:44 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96C386DCFBC3A3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> 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. >> > > Actually people are doing a 100mph plus commute in this country. The Holy crap. That's some fast commuting. > houses in my town are getting very pricey because people are commuting > into London. Of course they use the train. You have the infrastructure for inter-city trains and a hell of a lot less ground to cover. Willing to lend us a few trillion to fix that little problem? Or maybe a world war to start over fresh like you folks had? > Alternatively LIVE CLOSER! a radical idea I know but one which seems to > work. But, but...I would have to look at my neighbors and stuff. Eeeewwww.... -- Jim .