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Re: I really don't want to, but...fuel prices

To: "Keith Wheeler" <keithw@sand.net>, "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: I really don't want to, but...fuel prices
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:55:32 -0500
Keith for President!!!!!

Hip Hip Hooray!!!

Larry

PS I agree with all of the below, in case you couldn't guess.

At this exact moment in time 3/9/00 6:37 PM, keithw@sand.net made the 
profound statement:

>Folks, 
>
>Fuel prices.  Come on, get over it. If you don't want a high
>fuel bill, drive less.  Mow your yard with an electric mower.
>Petroleum products carry a high price.  Sorry.
>
>Personally, I don't care. I'm not saying I like paying a lot
>for fuel, I'd rather spend less.  But,  1)  I pay $5 a gallon
>for fuel.  (Yes, it's special use fuel, but so?  That's what
>I pay for some of the gasoline that I use).  2)  Maybe it'll
>mean fewer people on the roads.  
>
>Gee.  What a shame.  I could actually *enjoy* driving my MG
>on the back twisty roads without coming around a corner, at
>the speed limit, only to be faced with some huge gas guzzling
>RV going 15 MPH.
>
>Again, (and I don't care if you flame me, my suit is SFI 3.2A/5)
>petrol carries some price.  If you don't like it, there are
>tons of options.  Electric cars.  Bicycles.  The bus.  Walk.
>Car pool.
>
>I mean, really, for most of us the even if fuel went up another
>10 cents/gallon it'd still be less than $20 a month more than
>what we're spending now.  Plenty of folks burn up much more than
>that on tobacco, horrible fast food, bad beer and other things that
>are neither as much fun nor as healthy as a spin in an MG.
>
>-Keith Wheeler
>Team Sanctuary                         http://www.TeamSanctuary.com/


Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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