"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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I'm only skeptical about stuff YOU post.

That's unfortunate. You should apply some of that skepticism to other
self-proclaimed experts as well.

BTW, are you always so pompous?

"Pompous"? Mike has been simply forthright about his KNOWLEDGE regarding
the topic at hand. He has first-hand experience with the Marquise model,
and you and I have no reason to doubt the investigation he did regarding the
Merlin prior to his purchase of his airplane.

If Mike says the Merlin costs more to operate than the Marquise, you'd be a
fool to disagree if you have no personal, first-hand experience to show
otherwise. As far as "pompous" goes, seems to me you're the one behaving
pompously, if anyone is. You are basing your entire argument with Mike on
numbers published by unverified sources, and yet you refuse to believe that
he might have a point. That's arrogance at its finest.

Yes, you should question EVERYTHING you read on the Internet (and
elsewhere), but in this case, you are giving the benefit of the doubt to
exactly the wrong source of information. If you wish to doubt both, fine.
But if you're only going to doubt one, you picked the wrong horse.

Pete