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Something I learned from a History show the other day.....2 years ago only 55,000 diesel engine automobiles were sold in the entire US.
With diesel prices higher than Gasoline prices, I don't see any increase likely in the future.
As for myself, I enjoy being high enough from the ground to see what's going on around me in traffic, instead of risking my life and others trying to guess if a truck is barreling down the road toward me when I attemp to pass, or waiting until I back completely out of a parking place before I can see if the way is clear.
I will continue paying a little more for the comfort and safety of a larger vehicle.
-------------------- Rove Gratz Gratz Signs 342 Walden Station Drive Macon, GA 31216 rovegratz@aol.com Home Page: http://rove-342.tripod.com Posts: 861 | From: Macon, GA 31216 | Registered: Jan 2004
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I've just read this thread, and would just like to add my thoughts. As a Brit now living in Canada, and having brothers who were in the military, I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion about the political aspects, but those men and women who serve always deserve our utmost respect and gratitude.
-------------------- Graham Parsons Signs 'n Such Ltd Swift Current Saskatchewan Canada. www.signsnsuch.com
"Saskatchewan - hard to pronounce, easy to draw" Posts: 710 | From: Saskatchewan, Canada | Registered: Oct 1999
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I'm not one to get politically involved but I have to say something here,....I have a son in the military overseas and I grew up in a family in the gasoline business,....As an artist I chose to become a signpainter not an oil jobber,....
First of all the price of fuel is dictated in the world market by oil futures on wall street and other world markets,not politicians. Greed not politics dictate the price of oil,...lets get real. The anylists can use any political situation they please to suggest the increase in oil prices but all in all you can watch oil futures on the open market and just about set your clock by the increases in a matter of ninety day it takes the oil to get from the off shore ports to the american refineries. During the shipping process the only thing that dictates any extra cost is insurance on sea faring containers and there are no current sea wars going on so that basically is not a factor. Granted political reactions can dictate buying and selling practices, but for the most part greed on the open market in oil futures dictates the cost we see at the pumps.
So the next time you see the increase at the pumps remember to cuss your stock broker,not the president,not the government,not the local oil jobber,not the oil companies,just the speculators on the open commodities market.
So given that,...I suggest you watch the oil futures market,...and adjust your lifestyle accordingly,placing blame where it belongs and using all this "energy" to find a solution.
'nuff said,....
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I for one am glad you did take a change and share your input on this topic Timi !
We seem to be a society "out of ballance, too much greed and selfishness" we all need to look in the mirror and make a couple adjustments now and then.
Thanks, Roger
-------------------- Roger Bailey Rapid Tac Incorporated 186 Combs Dr. Merlin Oregon 97532 Posts: 3020 | From: Merlin Oregon | Registered: Dec 1998
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Thank you for posting that, it seems everyone missed my statement about this same thing 2 pages back!!
quote:Originally posted by Mike Pipes: Anyone stop to think the cost of oil probably has more to do with the yahoos on Wall Street trading it up higher and higher, than it does a war?
Sure, war creates fear and uncertainty but it's the frenzied morons on the stock exchange floor controlling the cost.
Then other investors see the prices go up and that just causes more of a frenzy with people trying to get in on the action, which continues driving the price up.
Gee.. it's just like the current real estate market - an artificially inflated bubble.
I get at least one phone call a day from investment firms wanting me to invest in oil - each time it's a different firm. That tells me something, kinda like how there's 1200 real estate agents in this dumpy little desert town I live in.
Eventually, the wheels are gonna break on that bandwagon.
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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