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What kind of privates do you drive 2620
Richard you are probably right on that point, at least for a large proportion of the population, but there are quite a few of us who'd rather drive...

What kind of privates do you drive 2621
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Sylvain That's true. Most of them aren't allowed into the US, because they don't comply with US safety standards. The logical buttumption is that they're unsafe, but real...

What kind of privates do you drive 2622
It does appear that much of the problems in the USA are from keeping the technically knowledgable out of the decision making process. Everything seems to...

What kind of privates do you drive 2623
Jeff Hacker Bitten by statistics. SUVs are not listed as "cars" they come from the trucking division. And when you look at Hummer, it isn't in the trucking division...

What kind of privates do you drive 2624
Have you ever driven with children? You're not allowed to put them in the front...

What kind of privates do you drive 2625
this newsgroup with: maybe with a V6 Explorer, but my '03 V8 (which I traded in for a more sensible car), got, on a GOOD day, 12mpg in the city...

What kind of privates do you drive 2626
Also why Chrysler and the Japanese developed folding-seat minivans. Being able to fold the...

What's wrong with rolling stops
Personally I dislike Yield signs because of the ambiguity. Some people seem to have the idea that if there is...

Tragic rail equivalent of 90 in a 25 zone
I've gone 90 in a 25mph zone. Was it irresponsible? Heck no." (Marc Whinery, 2001, rec.autos.driving) ---------- ALERT! We...

Tragic rail equivalent of 90 in a 25 zone 2629
Carl Taylor Carl... Carl honey, you should put a bit more thought into your cute little posts. See sweetheart, mentioning anything about planes in your uneducated rants about speed shows your extreme ignorance. An...

Does freeway driving mileage go down with pbuttengers in the car
Mike Tantillo Pressure goes as the square of the velocity, power required as the cube of velocity as a first approximation. Doubling the speed would result in four times as much wind...

Road Ragers Sorry Too funny
A bit of surfing came across the following snippet of humor: ---- ROTFLMAO! Make a "SORRY...

Hypothetical Q who's liable in this accident situation
Hi, I was commuting to work on Route 9 West in MA today, it's 2 lanes each direction and I was going...

Bus + Cell Phone = Dead Pedestrian
SAN DIEGO -- Sheriff's investigators say a bus driver who hit and end a pedestrian in the South Bay was distracted...

Bus + Cell Phone = Dead Pedestrian 2646
Arif Khokar Arif Khokar So you never drive with pbuttengers, I rarely do and understand. But many times, if I do have a pbuttenger, I hand...

Bus + Cell Phone = Dead Pedestrian 2647
Arif Khokar You've never had plans change, a meeting get cancelled, a customer not show up...

Bus + Cell Phone = Dead Pedestrian 2648
You don't know my reaction times and you are blaming a piece of equipment for human incapability...

Bus + Cell Phone = Dead Pedestrian 2649
You are wrong. Probably your reactions are slower, and you project your limitations to others, and think that everyone should be restricted to the lowest common denominator. My reaction times have been tested on...

Bus + Cell Phone = Dead Pedestrian 2650
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:01:49 -0700, Bill Funk Depends on what you have to...

Tire life
easy way to see the UTG Ratings for various tire brands. The UTG ratings are required by the government. some tires, but in...

A New Driving Maneuver: The FUTurn 2653
I've had this occur to me many times because I will use the horn directed towards these arseholes. I've had congaline left turners flip me off... but the most spectactular one...

Common Sense Coming to Michigan 2654
Larry Bud Yes. It's a joke. Can you get that? Who pbutted all that stuff? Are you saying Granholm was able to put the mind-meld on the...

Common Sense Coming to Michigan 2655
She has the political equivalent to a mind-meld. It's called political capital, and it...

Rita: here we go again.... 2656
Don't be an idiot. Why do you think we have the Robinson-Pitman act? The fact is that companies in America collude and engage in price fixing all the time...

Rita: here we go again.... 2657
A 30s style economic depression will do more damage to the environment than increased energy capacity. However IMO the environment ceased to be reason many years ago and became the excuse. Control over energy means...

Rita: here we go again.... 2658
The kyoto treaty is written as if CO2 from the USA and europe is bad but CO2 from China, India, etc was perfectly fine. It's...

Rita: here we go again.... 2659
enough some Another idiot screaming, "BUILD MORE REFINERIES!!!" In a few years when oil production...

Rita: here we go again.... 2660
First, the production will go up when the Senate-House also authorizes more drilling offshore-in Anwar, etc and second, the production of heavy crude will increase as the (cheaper) "light sweet" crude dwindles. We...

Rita: here we go again.... 2661
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:07:53 -0500, Brent P rec.autos.driving... And that would be regardless of whether or not a refinery (or pipeline) was actually...

Rita: here we go again.... 2662
Paul. Oh, to cover a story you mean, and get shots of a flaming tire? They looked pretty cool, so I guess it was worth the effort. Not just making prices rise for no reason...

Name that defect
Travelling through central PA a few days ago . . . Light traffic, 65MPH Interstate, doing about 70 in...

Rita: Running Out of Gas in Evacuation Traffic Jams
Rita: Running Out of Gas in Evacuation Traffic Jams (09-22) 10:47 PDT Galveston, Texas (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of people across the...

Rita: Running Out of Gas in Evacuation Traffic Jams
This is simply because you don't know to build correct housing. Those toys houses blown away in the wind and those others ripped open by flood water are truly a pitiful sight to behold...

Today's episode of tales of the sloth
I'm riding home in the rain today and pull up behind the last car in the...

Today's episode of tales of the sloth.... 2667
P) ...which is just your generally combative personality at work again. Try concentrating on solving your problem without involving anyone else...

Today's episode of tales of the sloth.... 2668
Generally combative? Shows you have no clue. I want to get through the light. It's not a long signal and I was about 7th in line. That's it. Do you think a horn blast had...

Today's episode of tales of the sloth.... 2669
P) Hell, you're not stopping them, now are you? When I was riding bicycles, in...

Today's episode of tales of the sloth.... 2670
I was refering to your general 'fear' based idea to allow idiots to rule the roost. Are you sure you want...

5gal is making me gleeful 2671
P) Not far enough. If it comes in at cat 5, it'll be cat 2 or 3 100 miles in. Isabel...

5gal is making me gleeful 2672
Motorhead Lawyer Why are people complaining then? Gas prices are still cheap, cheap, cheap. Maybe not for the poor sucker who commutes 50 miles each way to work. But...

5gal is making me gleeful 2673
Motorhead Lawyer Awww...too bad that you won't have the ability to track me down. Well, enjoy that lame hobby of yours. As for...

5gal is making me gleeful 2674
Winter sucks. If you can find the correct Hemingway quote (Clue: He was a famous American author.), you'd know what 'sports...

5gal is making me gleeful 2676
Apparently, you are a control freak who actually thinks they really know their child's teacher. See comment above. the teacher is not dogmatic about being Catholic...

Driving like maniac" speeder kills 10 year old boy Lawyer calls it an accident
This monster is worse than a child-raper but i bet he gets a couple years at most in criminal coddler america. BY SCOTT SHIFREL DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A...

Why Do Cops and Prosecutors Buy Into the "Speed Kills" Bullpoo 2681
NunYa Bidness Wow, you're a flaming idiot. Of course we can tell, or at least estimate with a reasonable degree of accuracy, how many vehicle miles...

Why Do Cops and Prosecutors Buy Into the "Speed Kills" Bullpoo 2682
NunYa Bidness No, they're not. no, they're not. Since when was a "county engineer" an elected...

Why Do Cops and Prosecutors Buy Into the "Speed Kills" Bullpoo 2683
NunYa Bidness Real people brake when they are about to collide with something. In fact, they usually...

Why Do Cops and Prosecutors Buy Into the "Speed Kills" Bullpoo 2684
But the highways are *safe*, twit boy. They're even safer in Germany where the speeds are far higher. So perhaps there is a little more to it. As for...

Driving like maniac" speeder kills 10 year old boy Lawyer calls it an accident Sender
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:12:51 -0700, Uncle Buck Sure it is. It most certainly is. I have seen posts by you that sport a modicum...

Driving like maniac" speeder kills 10 year old boy Lawyer calls it an accident Sender
Gave us: Bullpoo. The civil engineer in that county is the guy that determines what the speed limit that gets...

Driving like maniac" speeder kills 10 year old boy Lawyer calls it an accident 2687
NunYa Bidness HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Oh poo, I think I peeed my pants. You can't seriously have lived to adulthood and be...

Driving like maniac" speeder kills 10 year old boy Lawyer calls it an accident 2688
NunYa Bidness Prove it. Based on the tone of this discussion, I seriously doubt you could design a bucket that didn't leak. Ooh, your wit is astonishing. You'd be wrong. Have you done...

U.S. Has Trillion Barrels of Untapped Oil 2689
arminius Actually, the article misrepresents the whole Peak Oil concept and shows little concern for the...

Cheney and war profiteering: a simplistic cliche
Well Cheney made 2.x million dollars last year according to the IRS, so that makes him "not poor...

U.S. Has Trillion Barrels of Untapped Oil 2691
Virginia. And no, I wouldn't. This area needs some more development, no matter how the rest of the people around here try to prevent it. They can also, if they wish, build a...

Texas hurricane evacuation = Chinese fire drill 2692
agreed agreed agreed So I take it you believe that the U.S. should not spend ONE PENNY...

Texas hurricane evacuation = Chinese fire drill 2693
Dave C. Emergency Rescue? Yes, within reason. Catastrophe Reimbursement? No. Nor should insurance premiums go up...

Texas hurricane evacuation = Chinese fire drill 2694
Who said anything about eminent domain or buying people's property? I said the area should be re-zoned as commercial only. No...

Saudi Arabia again says plenty of oil So why is gas going thru the roof
To a point you are right, but in the case of oil refineries and other heavy industry, placing heavy industrial plants near residential areas...

Saudi Arabia again says plenty of oil So why is gas going thru the roof
OK, but the refineries are generally built out on the country. And my home town, Fostoria, Ohio, is littered with factories, and people seem to do just...

Saudi Arabia again says plenty of oil So why is gas going thru the roof
Exactly, there is no motivation, but the government should have motivation to change this, and it doesnt either. Most of the energy policy in this...

Saudi Arabia again says plenty of oil So why is gas going thru the roof
In IL we get around this by buying a permanent easement with the property owner for only the portion needed to widen the road, leaving the clean-up responsibility...

Saudi Arabia again says plenty of oil So why is gas going thru the roof
Same here. In fact, I've been told by our Underground Geotechnical Investigation Unit to avoid certain areas at all costs to avoid running into the underground tank problem. The cleanup problem happens when...

KATRINA SURVIVORS: "GUNS SAVED US" 2700
An armed civil revolt may or may not be possible. However, the tanks and airstrikes would be fairly useless against such a spread...

KATRINA SURVIVORS: "GUNS SAVED US" 2701
Well, that's a shame, because I'd trust *all* my neighbors with semi-automatics. (It's likely that a quite a few have them, anyway.) And if...

KATRINA SURVIVORS: "GUNS SAVED US" 2702
BTR1701 More tough talk from the anonymice. Just out of curiosity, do you ask these guys a series of questions to determine if they're "violent psychopaths...

E85 in carbureted cars
Here and there in the mechanical world, one encounters a hole described in terms of the smooth end of a drill bit just because that's a handy way to approximately...

Georgia closes schools to cut gas consumption
No mention of lowering speed limits or banning gas guzzlers from the highways. Better to do away with educating...

Georgia closes schools to cut gas consumption 2705
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:40:57 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE Actually, the best way to reduce fuel consumption would...

Georgia closes schools to cut gas consumption 2706
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:12:22 -0400, "George Firestone" buttuming for the moment that your statement is true, whose fault is that? My parents managed to find...

Washington Post: $1.46 on each gallon sold is new profit for oil industry
Gas Profit Guzzlers Refiners Captured The Biggest Part Of the Price Increase By Justin Blum Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 25...

Why do they keep calling it "unleaded" 2708
Floyd Rogers "White gas" as sold in the US was a "low cut gasoline" that was between a conventional modern gasoline and a kerosene. It would run in "kerosene" tractors, many older...

Why do they keep calling it "unleaded" 2709
Scott en Aztlán NOT ONLY is leaded gas still sold in much of the world, in many of them it's the ONLY kind that is! Which is why there are catalytic...

Washington Post: $1.46 on each gallon sold is new profit for oil industry 2710
The the Many DECADES (centuries, perhaps) before oil runs out, oil production will start declining, and...

Washington Post: $1.46 on each gallon sold is new profit for oil industry 2711
Nope, its just the usual journalistic silly stuff that gets the basics wrong. No it doesnt. Wrong. Correct...



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