"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:03:58 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:12:43 -0400, the infamous Wes
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Larry Jaques wrote:


Who is your "we" here, Ed? I generally find that once people drive an
economy car, they stick with them from then on.

I owned an a few V8 land crushers, then an Escort, then a Ranger, now a
Saturn. I guess
the ranger was an economy truck.

The light 5x8 trailer has made owning smaller vehicles practical for the
long term.

Some people love cars, powerful cars, others just want a cheap ride that
gets them there
reliably. Count me in the latter group.

My favorite auto of all time was my '70 AMC Javelin. A Donahue
Special, it started with 375hp @ 420# torque in front of a Borg T-10,
but when I rebuilt it, the HP cam popped her up to 425hp and nearly
500# torque. I realized how powerful it was when I spun a 100# manhole
cover out of its hole and down the street several blocks. And it took
corners hard enough to toss people in the back seat from side to side
before they could even try to hang on or put their seatbelts on. What
a fun ride. A very close second is the new Tundra. It's like a Caddie
inside with a nice, large cargo hole and a bed behind it.

I was really impressed with that little Hyundai Elantra, though. 30mpg
is nice.

I filled the truck up today and got a nice surprise: $60.26 to fill
and only $2.999/gal. It's back under $3/gal for the first time in FAR
too long. I envy you your $2.46/gal, though. Where does Jersey get
her gas? My neighbor thinks South America is the source.

Today, gas here is $2.379. As for where we get it, I have no idea. We have
some refineries here. Maybe we suck the oil out of a pipeline that runs to
New York, like they do in Nigeria. g

A Nigeria to New York pipeline? Whoda thunk? In Oregon, we pray to
the Energy Fairy, and she's a high-maintenance bitz.


Something encouraging: NJ just approved the construction of a good sized
offshore wind farm. It will be something like 12 miles out from the coast.
Let there be more of them...

What of the poor albatross? Oh, the humani^H^H^H^H^H^Hfaunanity!

I'm for more wind and solar power, too, but nukes will save us. One
large problem with that is that you can't take the coal miners,
retrain them, and have them watch nuke gauges. They'd be out of work
after retraining to build the plants.

Right. But they can find some other reason to dig holes in the ground.
There's always something down there.

I'm waiting for the Mr. Fusion, like Doc had on "Back To The Future." That
will solve everything.

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Ed Huntress