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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
Well, I sure hope you're sending your children to the war so I can keep filling my airplane with cheap gas. Honestly speaking, I have no problem with this deal at all. |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
we need to account about 1/3 to 1/2 of our military budget and
consider that a fuel tax For Europe too. If the U.S. did not subsidize the national defense of Europe they'd have to pay for it themselves. Imagine the German's having to take over all those bases in Germany. -Robert |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
hmm, there was no war for oil. it was for rescuing all those people from
terror and saving them from the terrorists. and getting rid of Hussein. Obviously. If the war was for oil, don't you think we'd have taken some by now? -Robert |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
On 20-Apr-2006, "Doug" wrote: There is no limit really. Name something else you can put in a tank and burn that is less expensive. Alchohol? Biodiesel? Electric? Right now, all of those are more. There is a pretty good chance it will go back down, SOME. But I doubt we will ever see it under $2 again. I doubt it, too. BUT, there are practical limits to prices for crude oil and the distillates derived from it. One is the cost of producing alternative sources of energy. If, instead of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq, we spent those sums on alternative energy R&D I am convinced the US would gain energy independence within a decade. The unique needs of aviation will continue to require high grade liquid fuels (i.e. gasoline or kerosene). But many other applications, including ground transportation, could be met with such alternatives as hydrogen fuel or ethanol. That would dramatically reduce demand for oil and bring gasoline and kerosene prices down. Of course, such a situation will also go a long ways toward averting a global warming catastrophe. -Elliott Drucker |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
They told us the war was for weapons of mass distruction. Then they
said, Saddam (or implied it). Not sure what the reason is now. Momentum? Can't pull out because we would look bad. Fighting the bad guys. Something like that. |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:19:14 GMT, Don Tuite wrote:
Call me a raging conspiricist, but I thought Afghanistan and Iraq were object lessons for the ruling classes in neighboring states to show them how easily we could transform stable despotism into rampaging anarchy if they ticked us off. ah. that's why the Emirates have payed the US their losses for Iraq Part I .... I see. don't take yourself too important. #m -- "We're out of toilet paper sir!" http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/stories/toilet.html |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
On 21 Apr 2006 22:48:08 -0700, Doug wrote:
They told us the war was for weapons of mass distruction. Then they said, Saddam (or implied it). Not sure what the reason is now. Momentum? Can't pull out because we would look bad. Fighting the bad guys. Something like that. lokk at history: what has almost every leader done when there where problems within the country? he started a war. #m -- "We're out of toilet paper sir!" http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/stories/toilet.html |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:34:09 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:
Do you honestly believe we need the size of the military we have right now if we don't have a need for an oversea energy supply? Pretty much. what for? serious. what for? nobody on this single planet is stupid enough to spend that much money for .... aaahhh ... what for? for destroying this single planet? glad we have you, you'll take care of _everything_. #m -- "We're out of toilet paper sir!" http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/stories/toilet.html |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
On 21 Apr 2006 21:52:28 -0700, Robert M. Gary wrote:
For Europe too. If the U.S. did not subsidize the national defense of Europe they'd have to pay for it themselves. I doubt that we here would raise much more money than we do right now for national defense. Imagine the German's having to take over all those bases in Germany. you mean cleaning up the environmental mess? or taking over the bases where you spy on your allies (!!)? or closing the airports where you train the low flights close to populated areas? or bringing away the nukes you have here (without permission AFAIK)? -Robert #m -- "We're out of toilet paper sir!" http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/stories/toilet.html |
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Avgas Where is the ceiling?
In article ,
Martin Hotze wrote: lokk at history: what has almost every leader done when there where problems within the country? he started a war. Yes, let's look at history and try to learn from it. What's the best place to fight a war? -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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