Gasoline...are you kiddin me?? (Page 2 of 4)

You are right, many do (although there are justifications for use of such vehichles, but most don't use them for those purposes).

Yeah see this is why I don't usually support such a system.  You have no choice.

I think my health insurance is less that that per month, and if I get sick or hurt, most of it is covered.  Plus, no waiting lists really.

Sucks, doesn't it?

See, I think there is something very wrong about that.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.  I really don't know where people get the idea that people get free healthcare in some countries.

the city i live i(springfield, il) is kicking around the idea of throwing an extra tax on gas, supposedly to pay for roads(heres an idea you evil bloodsuckers, stop voting yourselves big raises every year and that can offset it instead of making people who do real working get an even stiffer one on gas).  luckily i live right next to a small town(literally as close as you can possibly get, the city limit is between our neighbor's backyard and ours) so i can get gas there and not get further screwed over on an extra tax.  i mean really if the city government needs more money i honestly can't think of a stupider way to ask for it.  gas is so high already.  increase the sales tax if need be, personally i don't think any big increase is needed at all, but if you have to why on gas.  good way to get your voters behind you, put an increase on an already obscenely high price.  that reminds me of how ever since the huge hike in gas prices the oil companies have been posting record profits...honestly how the hell are they getting away with this with the amount of money they are making it is clear this is not just an inevitable increase, it is going into the pockets of a bunch of billionares...honestly it makes me sick...we have the technology to make oil far far far far i cannot say it enough less necessary in our daily lives, yet it goes unused.

Indeed the UK is a sucker for leeches unfortunately, far too many people not wanting to work and getting big hand outs for it. Fed up with the culture that goes on here makes you wonder is it worth trying hard?

Hi Geoff

Great taste in music and cars !!
I have the beefed up WV sound system in mine which gets some real welly - I think you will understand !!

I also do about 35K a year.
That's a lot of music between the phone calls. It's simple. Turn on engine and Joe comes on as well. I bet some people thinks it's a VW factory fitted extra and part of the car No wonder my cerebral cortex has Joe songs engraved in it !!

Oh.....I listen to Paul Jones Show and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue as well on the radio.

The 16m Dutch (apparently) own 18m bicycles. *wide-eyed look of surprise*

Bit of a jaw dropper, that.

Yes, yes, the distances are all much smaller here and I understand that many people in the US simply can't cycle down to the local shop instead of driving.

But be fair, there is massive room for improvement in the general level of energy consciousness in the US. You guys really could be a lot more 'green'.

Europeans drive mostly small cars so they're gonna have better gas mileage and you don't have to worry as much when 2 small cars get in an accident. I'm sure not gonna drive a small car and be squashed like a bug when an SUV or a big truck hits me just to get better gas mileage. Gas mileage be damned.

I think the current situation merely confirms that there is a god.

Being from an oil producing state and having lived through the oil bust of 1982. The most popular bumper sticker in town was the one that read. "dear God please give us another oil boom we promise not to screw it up this time."

Unfortunatley I have no oil company stock. I know more people employed either directly or indirectly in the oil industry than any other. including my immediate family. One mans feast is another mans poison.

So you're country is perfect?