So, how 'bout them fuel prices?

[phaeton16]

It's amazing how all office conversations turn to fuel prices when there is a $.25 jump in one day. People are wandering around, fretting and asking each other what their plans are. Everyone is talking about getting a more efficient vehicle or carpooling. It's a similar feeling to right after 9/11 - people look dazed, lost. It is amazing how

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[ljprokow]

This is alleviated easy by having strong public transptoration. Seattle seems to find new and exciting ways to ensure that public transportation NEVER happens (the latest was claiming that a monorail would cost $12 billion dollars to taxpayers to only make a dozen stops where people don't really live).

Then again, I haven't had use of my car since May, and I'm doing pretty good without it.

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The other side of this coin is that consider how much it's increasing the cost for companies to ship their goods from some manufacturing plant in Haverill to a distribution center in Santa Ana. Certain things are rights, though a car isn't one.

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If costs remain flat at their elevated rates as they stand right now, how much will you spend per week to commute to central Mass?
-Lee

[ljprokow]

By the way, all of Seattle's busses run on biodiesel.
-Lee

[phaeton16]

Good for them. How cold does Seattle get in the winter?

[ljprokow]

Apparently, not very. Forty degrees with light rain. Every day this summer was seventy degrees and partly cloudy, and I think the above describes every winter day.

...though you claimed that biodiesel has gotten better about performance in subzeros with additives?
-Lee

[moxiegirl]

I think one problem is not that it's actually a *right* to own a car, but unless you live in a city, it is probably a necessity.
BTW, where does regular diesel come from? I know I should know that, but I don't.

[phaeton16]

Your parents should have told you this. When a mommy diesel and a daddy diesel love each other VERY much...

[ljprokow]

Daddy diesel has a meth habit and beats mommy diesel, who wears a lot of makeup to hide her bruises. Baby diesel is often confused watching mommy and daddy diesel fight, and sometimes mommy diesel comes home with next-door neighbor diesel, and really hates it when daddy diesel shouts at mommy diesel for being a slut. Neither mommy nor daddy diesel have a job, and no one's cleaned the diesel household for years, and baby diesel's diaper needs changing, and baby diesel has developed a rash as a result. Baby diesel, if baby diesel survives, will grow up with a learning disability and be sickly.

This example illustrates how Exxon will sell anything.
-Lee