"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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All America has to do to stop Exxon from making record profits is to but
less gas.

Since the amount of discretionary driving this past Memorial Day weekend
didn't drop it seems that the American people really aren't that concerned
with the current price of gas.

Ah, yeah. All the people talking about it all the time aren't really
concerned.

How's GM doing these days? How about the airlines? Taxpayers gotta keep
bailing them out. Must be a reason nobody wants a Hummer anymore, but, I
wonder what it could be.

Fuel costs are part of the problem especially in the recreation sector I
don't think that's all of it.

Naw. $4/gallon at the boat fuel dock for gas that cost $2/gallon in 2002
at the same pump has nothing to do with why I don't put my boat in the water
anymore, and kayak instead. And, nobody's at all curious as to why the cost
of gas nearly doubled in the last two years. Fuel costs. Naaah. Gotta be
something else.

For some reason people just don't seem to won't their own airplane.
People are spending just as much on boats that burn just as much if not
more gas than aircraft do.

I don't drive my boat anymore because of the cost of gas. Nor do my wife
and I take long roadtrips in our jeep. Nor do my friends. Back during and
right after college, you'd not have caught a friend of mine buying a new
vehicle that wasn't American made. But now, they're buying Toyotas which,
you might remember, is wiping the world's ass with Ford and General Motors.
That's because the latter can't seem to deliver a fuel efficent vehicle, at
least until the Escape came along. (One of the Toyota buyers bought an
Escape hybrid and loves it.)

-c