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Replying to: lemko (Apr 22, 2008 9:04 am)
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Apr 22, 2008 9:05 am)
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Replying to: texases (Apr 22, 2008 9:11 am) Maybe there's something to be said for dictatorship.  Having said that, China's gas is under $3 and not going anywhere. And their economy, as a result, is absolutely booming. Ours, to compare, is slowly sinking.
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Apr 22, 2008 4:34 am) I tried to get comfortable in both the Civic and Accord a couple years ago. My head was touching the headliner. I am also just 6 foot tall. I like the sitting position in a PU or SUV for long drives. I am more relaxed and my back does not hurt at the end of a long day. Many of the current vehicles have gone to hard seats which I find uncomfortable as well. The truth is they can make comfortable vehicles that get 35 MPG. We just don't get them in the USA. So we have to use more fuel or live our lives to suit other people. |
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Haiti is in flames as food riots have turned into a violent challenge to the vulnerable government; Egypt's authoritarian regime faces a mounting political threat over its inability to maintain a steady supply of heavily subsidized bread to its impoverished citizens; Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon, Mozambique, Uzbekistan, Yemen and Indonesia are among the countries that have recently seen violent food riots or demonstrations. World Bank president Robert Zoellick noted last week that world food prices had risen 80% over the past three years, and warned that at least 33 countries face social unrest as a result. The sociology of the food riot is pretty straightforward: The usually impoverished majority of citizens may acquiesce to the rule of detested corrupt and repressive regimes when they are preoccupied with the daily struggle to feed their children and themselves, but when circumstances render it impossible to feed their hungry children, normally passive citizens can very quickly become militants with nothing to lose. That's especially true when the source of their hunger is not the absence of food supplies but their inability to afford to buy the available food supplies. And that's precisely what we're seeing in the current wave of global food-price inflation. As Josette Sheeran of the U.N. World Food Program put it last month, "We are seeing food on the shelves but people being unable to afford it." When all that stands between hungry people and a warehouse full of rice and beans is a couple of padlocks and a riot policeman (who may be the neighbor of those who're trying to get past him, and whose own family may be hungry too), the invisible barricade of private-property laws can be easily ignored. Our ethanol policy has not helped the food or fuel situation here or abroad.
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do you really think it is THAT easy to sell a house in this ecoonomy just to save a few bucks on gas? giving 6% to the realtor, paying the movers, any rennovations that need to be done to the new house. Get a grip man. It is easiler to lose a few thousand getting amore fuel efficient car than to uproot your family to live closer to a job you may just hate. Gas here in Lexington, KY is now $3.60 for regular. I bat is goes up again this week, probably friday.I will start working from home 2-3 days per week. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 22, 2008 9:42 am) Because their leaders eat up too much of the tax-grain; that is why the people are starving. Why are the people difficult to govern? Because their leaders interfere; that is why the people are difficult to govern. Why do the people treat death lightly. Because their leaders are so grossly absorbed in the pursuit of living; that is why the people treat death lightly. Indeed, it is wiser to ignore life altogether than to place too high a value on it. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 21, 2008 10:28 am) 
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Replying to: kernick (Apr 22, 2008 8:47 am) Change in spending habits - you bet. We don't drive to the park 7 miles away any longer. We walk the kids to the one about a mile away. We are also trying to have "no drive" weekends. Friday night I combine my errands, grocery shopping, kid pickup, etc. into one big loop. I carpool on weekend activities rather than drive myself. It isn't as convenient but since my fill-up is $62 (and I DO pay $4/gal) v. under $40 a couple of years ago... you bet habits are changing.
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