Date:         Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:02:34 -0700
Reply-To:     monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
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From:         monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject:      Re: High fuel costs threaten Alaska trip
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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i agree
on the samba today i saw someone post about fuel prices saying that a
4000 mile trip, even an increase in one mile per gallon added up and
he's right - to thirty more dollars

okay

so a) i think we should all burn a lot less gasoline - and b) thirty
bucks is thirty bucks - but an alaska trip is the sort of thing people
write books about -

9000 miles amounts to 450 gallons of gas at 20 mpg, right - if gas went
back down to a few months ago say $2.20 thats about a thousand dollars
-
at $3.50 thats $1575 - and lets face it - bush is going to have to do
something - he apparently can lie about war, violate the geneva
convention, illegally wiretap, abuse his power to get revenge on those
who expose the lies, bungle katrina response, and render political
prisoners to countries who look the other way regarding torture,  but
let those gas prices climb and he's cooked. ay yi yi

my .02 x X = what , i dont know

good luck :~ )


On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:


> It is possible for this fuel price thing to completely kill off my long
> planned trip up north. Fuel cost could go beyond my means.

Do the math and figure that if you cut back on eating out one meal a
week, you'll pay for the
added fuel cost.  OR! if you 'stealth camp' (or one night in a truck
stop etc) one night a week,
you'll pay for the added fuel cost.  IMHO it would really be a shame to
'kill' off "a trip of a
life-time" for just a few hundred extra dollars.  More than likely, gas
will be MORE expensive
next year, and every year there after.  m2cw.  Malcolm


"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still
on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and
even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious
to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau