[Shotimes] Re: Never say never re gas prices

[MonsieurBoo@aol.com]

Ah, wot-the-hay.  Let's crank up the nitro in the mix a  little.
 
Rich B:  "I'm 50 and I still go camping.  I intend to  continue backpacking 
also but it's hard to find people to go with me,  including my wife."


I share your pain.  But we sure don't have to take a back  seat to the 
younkers.  At 54 I'm gonna be hiking and camping on an active  volcano back in my 
Hawaiian home this July.  Probably minus the  SO ... her loss.*  Hope to still 
be doin' it at 74 or until my  ass falls off.
 
Shylo M:  "I'd say ... find out what's up there. Maybe there  isn't a huge 
field up
there. At least that way we'd all  know..."


No  doubt there's still some more left.  Those guys poking around on the  
sidewalk in front of the crack house at the "crack" of dawn are sure they'll  
find a rock or two from last night, or something close enough to put in the  pipe 
and torch up.  And who am I to suggest that they might not.   I'd never 
suggest it to THEM, at any rate.  (To be clear:  By  "them", I mean "petroleum 
junkie countries" in general and NOT field  geologists.)

Ron P:  "The Europeans have very high gas prices because the  greatest amount 
is taxes to pay for their socialist economies."
 
Very true, probably on the average about 60% of their  price-per-gallon is 
tax.  Our share is only a piddling 30% by comparison,  and after all, ours goes 
to our very own homegrown phalangists rather  than a bunch of fershlugginer 
furrin socialists.
 
George F:  "When I'm outside of CA, I get 2 more mpg in exactly the  same 
conditions thanks to MTBE being in our gas."
 
Paul N:  "Be glad it is in your gas and not your water."
 
Everyone be glad this is not a problem when it comes to ethanol !!
 
Cheers,
Mark LaBarre
84 atx 130k
 
 
* No SO, but on the other hand, there'll certainly be no shortage of  SO2  ;-)