Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:40:53 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96C38842C28813v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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. Actually 125 mph commuting, speedy trains. Sorry brain went onto autopilot, I mean how often do you have to write 100+ mpd commuting. Unfortunately I saw it just after I posted which is why I cancelled the message and sent a corrected version. >> 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? Actually most of the railways in this country were virtually untouched during the war. We don't have the space to radically improve the tracks like the Germans and French had. A lot of our railway was gutted by the Beeching (for which he was universally hated by people)report. A few trillion? peanuts for you lot, just look at your defence budget. Hey you may even have a little to spare on silly stuff like medicare for the poor and elderly if you spent a little less on your boys toys and foriegn adventures. You built the railways once with a lot less tecnology, you telling me that you couldn't do it again? >> 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.... > You should see my neighbours. Or rather actually hear my neighbours. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .