Re: "We are professional grade"

nonsense wrote:
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>> Gee, Uncle Sam does set the price of oil.
> 
> Uncle Sam allowed the merger of oil companies into
> a few giants destroying competition. Are you like
> 20 years old and oblivious to this history?

We have Valero, ExxonMobile, Citco, LukOil & Getty (one company), BP, 
Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, Sunoco and 
Shell.

These oil companies don't set the price of crude oil, either.

>>> Hell no, I am not at all happy with this American steel.
> 
>> The American steel is just fine. The problem is that you don't need it.
> 
> The bottom line is whether I am happy with it or not.
> Clearly I am not.

Then you're not. Fortunately, it's not my problem.

>>> I have enough older working tractors and an almost new
>>> ATV that I don't need a pickup truck for field work.
>>> Trailers are cheap for cartage. And anything will pull
>>> them down the highway.
> 
>> Good, you've found ways to save fuel already.
> 
> Better fuel efficiency with a machine that can be retuned
> would go far to making me a LOT happier. The fact that I've
> had to throw more money into new solutions forms a solid part
> of my gripe.

Too bad. No one makes a machine that lets you switch engines, what is in 
the back, the size of the cab, etc., on the fly. I guess the closest we 
come is the engines that switch off cylinders for efficiency, the L62 
V8-6-4 variable displacement engine that Caddy introduced 28 years ago 
(for one year only, though) and others are introducing now. Or a tractor 
trailer where you can put the trailer of your choice.

Your ATV and tractors come close, too, but don't have a lot of capacity. 
But, then again, you don't need a lot of capacity for a lot of you're
doing.

Jeff