Re: MAD as h ell

Posted by RusselAZ on May 22, 2004 at 00:35:22 from (68.2.144.38):

In Reply to: MAD as h ell posted by Rick on May 21, 2004 at 06:31:19:

interesting points made on this thread. However, Why do we use Semi trucks so much and rip out train tracks? Or have train right of ways in such shape that the trains can only go 20 mph on them?

Part of the reason for that is you can get fresh strawberries to Toronto from California in 3 days on a truck.

Supply and demand is working. The result you see is what happens when the tree huggers and Greenpeace Groupies keep us from building refineries or going after what oil we have under our control. It is also working on the world scale as China's purchases on the world market have increased 30% in the last 14 months and I doubt that once they get used to using, they will stop buying to let us buy it instead.

My power company will buy self generated power whether from solar panels or windmill. However, czarist government codes will not let me put up a windmill and I have a wonderful place for one. No one can put up such a thing if the neighbor, who is most likely a new move in from california, can see it. They just wouldn't be able to handle the strain.

And, In my little town of about 30,000 in the area, it seems like everyone who works downtown(south) lives in the north and the people who live in the south part work in the north. Last winter in the Phoenix valley they had a broken gas line. Then it was understood that this one city uses about 8 million gallons of gasoline a day!!! I alway marvel and wonder, "where are all these people going?".

I think the gas pumps should go back to the old style that you had to pump the gas up into the glass tank and then let it drain into your vehicle. That way, people would understand what 20 gallons is. I don't think 90% of the people have any idea what the volume is that passes through the fuel hose into their vehicles cause they never see it.

I think it's wonderful to live in a country where a 95 pound blonde can own and drive a 4 wheel drive, 4 door long bed with a 250 HP diesel on 32 inch tires and a lift kit, and on the weekends she and her husband can hook onto their 30 foot speedboat with two 454 chev outboards and 300 gallon fuel capacity and drive 300 miles to the lake and in two days burn off that 300 gallon of boat gas and then go home.

Just some thoughts.

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