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Replying to: avalon02wh (May 22, 2008 3:08 pm) 
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Replying to: steve_ (May 22, 2008 6:56 pm) |
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Replying to: steve_ (May 22, 2008 6:56 pm) 
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Replying to: kdhspyder (May 22, 2008 6:09 pm) Local moving company had several small over-the-road box type trucks drained of diesel fuel overnight and it made the news. Officer commented there had to be special equipment involved to handle that much fuel; someone didn't just put it in 5-gallon cans. I suspect lots more thefts are occuring around the area. I'll ask our officer friend when we stop at his house today. >INFLATION!!!! Our increasingly worthless US$ guarantees it will bite us hard. >I don't think the big problem will be the price. I'm more concerned about breakdowns in our society. Exactly right. If the Fed quits hinting at stimulating the economy by improperly lowering the interest rates, then our returns on investments in US currency might increase and the value of the dollar increase subsequently and the price of oil drop measured in terms of that increased value dollar. If the election weren't looming, I suspect we'd be in a recession for sure and inflation would be accurately reported. That would lead to increased interest rates. Until the election..., we're sunk with the do-gooders trying to buy votes with low interest. |
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| A news report about oil production increasing in this country which would lower the imaginary/real concept of not enough oil mentioned that the problem was Florida and California. I assume that meant because they wouldn't allow drilling near their shore? Does anyone know what that report was about? | |
...of closed trucking firm really feel the pain of high fuel prices:   http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20080523_Ex-employees_sue_over_the_abrup- tness_of_the_shutdown__Anger_at_Jevic_mounting.html |
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a year, the article said the Jevic driver was making. I think back to the trucker's talking about how they couldn't reduce their speed to save fuel a few months ago. They said their trucks were geared to give the best fuel mileage at 70 or higher!!! Now I notice that the trucks using I-70 seem to have decided that their trucks do better near the 55 Ohio speed limit for vehicles over 4 tons. I had noticed a reduction in the wrecklessly high speeds of trucks a couple weeks ago going to IKEA on I75. Now it's definite!!! They can save fuel at 55.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 22, 2008 4:19 pm) Or did you miss Katrina? How large an area was without electricity for how long? Or pick any other hurricane area - anyone here from Florida? |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (May 23, 2008 5:00 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (May 22, 2008 8:58 pm) All the lower-paid people will simply stay home, at least the honest ones will. The remainder will be busy with their new criminal careers - nonviolent or otherwise. My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again... |
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