Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:25:17 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A friend bought a NEW Camero Z28 in the midst of the first
oil crisis
In-Reply-To: <vanagon%2008061817501524@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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Roger, I am concerned for the poor vanagon as well. I have two of them in my
driveways. But I know that the only way this is going to work is if I drive
them less. I just got back from the store on my bike, as I do nowadays for
my health and strength as well as the gas it saves, and I was SHOCKED at
some of the prices I saw. It could have been avoided. We have had so many
chances over the years, and all I see are political directions to
things--like ethanol, and now this dumb***ed drilling rampage--that need
economists and scientists calling the shots, not oil-state governers and
vote-pandering candidates.
And BTW, Reagan was not only talking to the Iranians when he said he wasn't,
he was selling them arms to get the money to stir up trouble in south
america when congress wouldn't give it to him.
Right after you posted this morning about the immediate effect of the
president jawboning down the price of gas, oil went up five bucks. So much
for that.
Jim
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> The way I see what Bush is doing, is that you don't actually have to do
> anything to get the price of oil down, and it needs to come down now. Only
> need to make people think that you are going to do something. A side
> benifit
> to actually doing something. Beats what anyone else has done. If the
> investors that are speculating on the oil think the balance between supply
> and demand is going to change, they will sell on the rumor. Thats what
> investors do. They will find someplace else to put their money. Nobody has
> been able to do that so far. I just don't know how people are going afford
> heating oil this winter, and I feel sorry for those folks. The price of
> diesel fuel is $5 without the added competition of heating homes with it.
> My
> groceries are 20 percent higher in just a couple of months. Not the 5.5 the
> CPI says. These people on the margins won't have the money to buy oil this
> winter,and there are a ton of them. I have never voted republican ,but I
> liked what he did. Believe me, I am reluctant to give a republican credit
> for doing anything. My thoughts were of the Iranian hostages and how Reagan
> dealt with that situation. He didn't talk. Been done earlier and didn't
> help. The Iranians released the hostages the day he came to office because
> they feared nukeage. Gas prices need to come down now for America.
>
> Sorry list, for the content here today, but I am concerned for the Vanagon
> as it doesn't get good gas mileage. Wanted owners to maybe see a trend of
> lower gas prices coming. I think it will now happen, and I am glad. Lots of
> luck.
>
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