- 1. no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:24:56 -0500
- All I hear is blither and blather but the hard choices have yet to be made. So gasoline prices for all go up to heights not seen in 25 years. The counter-argument is made that a gallon is still a bar
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01065.html (9,518 bytes)
- 2. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: ATWEDITOR@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:20:33 EST
- << Let every gas pump be linked via computer to the auto registry of its state. To obtain gas, the licence of the car must be inputted and the tax is returned automatically to the pump as specified b
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01066.html (8,432 bytes)
- 3. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: "Craig Brownlee" <cbrownle@ong.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:27:52 -0600
- Damn why don't we just sell out to big brother and let him tell us all what we can drive or not drive... you know if we all road horses gas would be almost free around here then I see an increasing n
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01067.html (9,225 bytes)
- 4. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lynes" <cdlynes@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:12:47 EST
- Last I checked, Reagan was still alive... See ronaldreagan.com David Lynes ...Social concern died with Reagan. So in this brave new world, if you want to buy an SUV, do it, but pay the penalty of gas
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01072.html (8,211 bytes)
- 5. RE: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: John Steczkowski <stecz@Crossroads.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:25:39 -0600
- Ok, I get to start my anti-anti-SUV rant.... As the owner of several cars, each with a different mission (ok a couple aren't all that different)... I think people get a little extremist in their opin
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01073.html (11,427 bytes)
- 6. RE: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:12:51 -0700 (MST)
- I agree with you on the point that some use thier SUVs. I admit I own a cherokee, small by comparison but SUV non the less. I would say, however, that only a small percentage ever use them for anyth
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01110.html (12,923 bytes)
- 7. RE: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: DOUGLAS_RUSSELL@nyc.yr.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:34:48 -0500
- Attaboy John - well said. I also have a Suburban, spouse, 4 kids (with one more about to get the shock of his/her life in about three weeks - she's due April 26th!) and luggage. We use to have a Big
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01137.html (12,070 bytes)
- 8. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:07:04 -0500
- I'm not sure anyone has an issue with those that are actually using their SUV's for transport of large families, towing, hauling (LBC) parts, etc. However, on my 60-mile round-trip commute to work in
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01141.html (9,554 bytes)
- 9. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: "James H. Nazarian, Ph.D." <microdoc@apk.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:36:08 -0500
- FYI, although Ford may have discontinued the Aerostar minivan, a replacement is being produced by Ford, Chevy, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota and how many others; so are full size vans. Most buyers of Subu
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01142.html (14,108 bytes)
- 10. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:33:11 -0500
- Are you sure that all SUVs are for a social function. If you saw my wife's friend driving here 4wd Jimmy back and forth to work you might think that. But on the weekends that same Jimmy is used to to
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01206.html (10,780 bytes)
- 11. RE: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Kevin Sullivan <kevins@khoral.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:48:24 -0700 (MST)
- You guys are going to love this. These are real quotes from the official Hummer web site: // ON-ROAD With its unique Suspension system, the Hummer handles more like a sportscar on the highway than a
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01208.html (8,872 bytes)
- 12. RE: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Dan Dwelley <ddwelley@excite.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:10:14 -0800 (PST)
- Yes Master; Must buy Hummer...or is that GET Hummer? I'm sorry guys and gals.... I'm feeling a little punchy today. Dan Dwelley 77 Midget Alexandria, Va. Dan Dwelley 77 Midget Alexandria, Va. Get 100
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01209.html (9,715 bytes)
- 13. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:38:15 -0500
- Bill, these items - But the road would be safer if the cops would ticket the people who can't: merge, fail to keep right, fail to yield, run red light, rolling stops, unsafe lane changes, weave in an
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01210.html (8,585 bytes)
- 14. Re: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Hammarstedt <hellbent@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:00:10 -0600
- I like SUV's and other behemoths on the road. They provide shade at stop lights. They are slalom obstacles on multilane roads. They are targets for unsafe high speed merging, failing to yield, runnin
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01255.html (9,040 bytes)
- 15. RE: no-LBC content: gas prices, a rant, and an idea (score: 1)
- Author: Gordon Bird <gb@the-bdc.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:35:43 -0500
- Gotta get in. Wife used to commute in a van, weekends hauled kids, dogs,lumber, and trailers with an assortment of loads, including LBC's (no trailer queens though). Now kids grown, wife commutes in
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01288.html (10,589 bytes)
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