Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:03:38 -0700
Reply-To: Michael aka ECHO <echosmurf@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Michael aka ECHO <echosmurf@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: ripples of diaster ..
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Yes, gas prices are going to go up. They should have by about 20
cents minimum, about 3 hours ago. Most of north american
pipelines and refineries were shut down towards today's
terrorist attacks. Exxon and such have alreday allowed only 50%
of it's gasoline shipments. Welcome to capitalism. Yet, I hope
we get those dirty bastards... if it was an outside threat.
Michael C.D.
--- "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM> wrote:
> At 08:09 PM 9/11/01 -0500, Joel Walker wrote:
> >the greedy bastards around Tuscaloosa, Alabama have raised
> gasoline
> >prices 20 cents since this morning ... related to the NYC
> bombing, you
> >think???!!!
>
> I bet its raised up an *additional* two DOLLARS per gallon by
> this moment
> in some places.
> Supply and demand is substantially the reason rather 100%
> greed, I suspect.
> Let's face it, they can't give the stuff away because there
> simply won't be
> any left until those trucks roll it in.
> The price of a brand new TDI just increased too.
> An Excursion V-10 is practically worthless.
> And every vehicle I have is filled to the max now, and I am
> still scared.
> My wife is getting ready to deliver a baby any day.
>
> But those terrorist pieces of crap, what is their purpose?
> What do they
> really hope to accomplish? And what to be done to them? (If
> you could find
> one!) If I caught one on the way to do a "mission" right now,
> what would I
> do with him/her? Kill him? Maim? Torture? Spit on his
> face? What would
> be sufficient? Death means nothing to them. Torture probably
> wouldn't
> bother them much. It's crazy. A dilemma/puzzle we are placed
> in, and the
> stakes are life and death.
> We have all this technology, all these miracles at our
> fingertips, yet we
> are absolutely powerless to do anything to control humanity.
> I started to say, "powerless to control pure evil."
> But to those bastards, they probably really and truly they are
> doing the
> right thing.
> That's what so damn scary about them. They don't perceive
> themselves as
> evil. WE are the giant evil, pure degenerative, wasteful,
> lustful, society
> of sin incarnate. At least, I have a good idea that's what
> they must
> think. Otherwise, we do they strike at us?
> And where, do they strike -- but the sin capital of the entire
> world: NYC. And the love of money is the root of all evil,
> so the Trade
> Center, I guess.
> But why today, of all days?
> This thing probably took years to plan out and carry out.
> Maybe 2 to 3 at
> least. How the hell did they get those bombs in the place?
> Must have been
> some innocent looking guy who applied for a maintenance job
> several years
> ago. He moved up the ranks, and then he's turned loose on the
> building. He plants implosive detonation devices here and
> there, all
> carefully crafted and placed at the precise points. Couldn't
> have been all
> in a day, surely not. Or maybe he did Labor Day weekend, or
> this past
> weekend. Where are the employment records?
>
> What about our people stuck at various airports -- the rent a
> cars are all
> gone. The airlines are losing money left and right shut down.
> Business
> can't do business. These bastards did a number on us, for
> sure. What
> about that damn Dell computer I ordered that Dell claims was
> shipped out
> Sunday, two days ago?? Will UPS and carriers continue to
> operate? (I
> don't mean to say my problems are important -- its just part
> of the ripple
> effect.)
>
> It isn't just the poor souls in the planes and the Trade
> Center, and the
> Pentagon, and wherever else ( I don't know many details yet )
> we all will
> feel ripple effects before the week's over, and who knows
> what's to come.
>
> God help the survivors, and those in need right now. God help
> those who
> are trying in desperation to reach their loved one on the
> phone, yet
> unaware whether he/she is alive or dead.
>
> I feel so guilty just being alive, yet so grateful. But what
> kind of
> quality of live can we all have now?
>
> HK
=====
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