Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : John Iwaniszek Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 23:32:29 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. > >> 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? > I think the infrastructure here in the Triangle will ramp up pretty quickly. We may be in a red state, but we are an island of sanity in a red state. = .