gatt wrote:
"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.

Sure they are talking about it. But when push comes to shove they still
drive the same way they did when gas was 1.50/gal.

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.


If you think GM problems are caused only by the price of gas you are nuts.
Their problem is they produce a sub-par product.


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

You and your friend are the exception. Not the rule.