Re: Fuel Prices... again...

As someone once said, "There's no such thing as a free lunch," so goes 
it for the auto/big oil industry.

Those computers that whiz you much faster these days also consume a lot 
more energy than that Commodore 64 of yesteryear. Still, speed is 
good... sometimes.

Regarding oil prices..  It's the speculators who determine prices based 
on hysteria, greed public gullibility.  Add to this poor energy policies 
by the guv'ment and our insatiable appetite for motor vehicles, and 
well, you gits what you got.

I for one took action a couple years ago in the form of "reconditioning" 
an old '82 Honda Civic that gets around 42mpg in mixed driving.  It's 
paid for and I have a ton of spare parts. Studebakers now are the luxury 
occasional experience.

JT



Dale J. wrote:

> Gas here just went up the other day to $1.239 per liter (that's $4.69
per US 
> gallon or $5.63 per Imperial gallon).  WTF?!?   If the Auto industry had

> kept up with progress and R&D like the Computer industry has we would
all be 
> driving 500 HP cars that get 80 MPG at 80 mPH.  But the government and
big 
> oil won't let that happen now, will they...
> 
>