Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:48:20 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3nmijgF2a02bU8@individual.net: > Tyler Trafford wrote: >> weirdwolf wrote: >>> Tyler Trafford wrote in >>> news:3nmi1dF2a02bU2@individual.net: >>> >>>> 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 100+m a day plus commute in this >>>>> country. The houses in my town are getting very pricey because >>>>> people are commuting into London. Of course they use the train. >>>>> Alternatively LIVE CLOSER! a radical idea I know but one which >>>>> seems to >>>>> work. >>>> >>>> In some cities the business districts have grown so much that you >>>> don't have the choice to live closer- unless money is no object, of >>>> course. >>> >>> Which should lead to the development of brown field innercity sites >>> and the development of better mass transportation. >> >> Yeah, that would be nice. Hmm, I wonder if there's a map somewhere >> with LA superimposed of England, I'm curious. > > of=on Yes yes you have lots and lots of lovely space we get it. But that's not an excuse for not building a better mass transportation system but an encouragement. We also get that you are using a ressource that is scarce when better alternatives are availabe that aren't likely to fuck up the environment so much. London for the frst time in years is allowing the building of high rise housing, the flats of the sixties were a nightmare but we have to do something. Ages back I posted the size of my house, it was built as a family size home. Do you think that it would count as that in the US? Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .