Gas Prices -- Help at last?

Not that I have any interest in seeing America return to an industrial
economy, but there a millions of under-educated Americans who desperately
needed those long-gone blue-collar jobs.

It is they who have suffered the brunt of the crazy, over-blown
environmental regulations. That smell you and I haughtily disdained was
the smell of money to them and their families.

That somebody profits from destroying the environment is no reason to
let it be so. The same arguments can be made for casinos, logging the
redwoods, and cocaine as a legitimate business.

Jose
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Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
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Analogy: death sentence for speeding.

Analogy: Fatal speeding accident. The laws of physics take care of the
rest.

Jose
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Do they make snow tires for bicycles?

the tires on my mountain bike would make pretty good snow tires. Ice might
be
a problem though.

I wonder if you can get spiked tires for bicycles, like the ones they used
in (that insane "sport") motorcycle racing on frozen lakes.

Although, to be honest, I haven't seen one of those races in many years. I
wonder if they finally outlawed them?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Eliminate your wife's wasted time, and your country's productivity would
soar!

add in the additional car, parking fees, etc ... than you might be even.

Iowa City has been trying to "European-ize" their downtown in a similar
fashion. Just this year they closed the last available open parking lot in
downtown, (they're building condos on it) leaving only parking meters and
multi-story parking garages available for parking.

End result? All new business development since 1998 has moved to our sister
city, Coralville. In the end, all these well-intentioned, over-educated
city activists accomplished was to ensure the financial success of
Coralville.

Which, of course, is what every business-person *told* them would happen
when they announced their plan.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck opined

Your route sounds like an even better candidate for a bicycle
commute.

Yeah, that would be a sight in January... :-/

And what "sight" would that be? Some warmer clothes?

Do they make snow tires for bicycles?

the tires on my mountain bike would make pretty good snow tires. Ice might be
a problem though.



-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?

In article 0li2f.468753$xm3.119049@attbi_s21,
Jay Honeck wrote:

The bus stops 1 block from my home -- which sucks in bad weather. It then
goes downtown -- a distance of 2.5 miles -- but takes forever to get there.
It travels down narrow city streets that were never designed for busses,
stopping every block, backing up traffic everywhere along the way.

Once downtown, I would have to transfer to another bus to travel the
remaining 1.5 mile to the hotel, with it once again stopping every 200 yards
along the way. The entire trip would take a bit more than an hour.

Or, I can drive to my office in less than 15 minutes.


Its all in the design and the service focus. I was in germany last winter
and there was a bus stop 1 block away from where I was staying. It took
me only 3 days to adjust my morning routing so as to arrive exactly
on time with the bus to the bus stop, thus avoiding all waiting on the
bus stop. And yes, german busses are VERY exact.

I was 3 stops sway from the end of the bus line and the bus took 12 minutes
to arrive Downtown where I could take any bus to another part of the city.

I could reach anywhere in the city in less than 40 minutes, and it was
a lot more than 2.5 miles....

A lot of people had NO car or used it only in the weekends. Every street had
bikepaths and they were occupied all year round. In the summer a lot of
people rode their bikes to work. And yes, you can leave you bike at the
station with just a small chain and the bike will be there when you came back.

side note: In the city I was there was some public outcry for
a recent bus accident that left one fatality. It was the first public
transportation accident in 15 years and the first public transporttion
fatality in the city in 40 years, my host told me...


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In article ,
Morgans wrote:

"Eduardo K." wrote

new engines are mostly highpressure Diesels of FSI engines (gas engines
but with gas inyected inside the combusion chamber in a way simmilar
to Diesel engines).

Name some of these new engines, so we can compare what we are talking
about. If you are talking about the ones I am thinking about, the
sequential injection takes place at the intake valve, on the manifold side.

2.0 FSI Audi: http://www.audiworld.com/news/01/iaa/fsi/content.shtml

quote:

The FSI engine's special combustion principle is critical to its efficiency. On this engine, fuel is not injected into the intake port, but directly into the combustion chamber. The injector, which is supplied by a single-piston pump and common rail fuel line, is in the side of the cylinder head, and controls the injection time to within thousandths of a second, at injection pressures of up to 110 bar.



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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:UCs2f.471120$xm3.174829@attbi_s21...

But then, I also won't dare complain about how there are no decent jobs
for unskilled workers, as so many do.

It's quicker and easier to train an unskilled worker for the service sector
than for manufacturing.

My #2 son started at Walgreens when he was 17 doing part time work at
$6.25/hour. He moved up to Pharmacy Tech when 18 ($9.00/hr) and will finish
his degree in Pharmacology this coming May. $$$$

Too many environmental activists refuse to see any connection between
their actions in the '60s and '70s, and the long-term consequences.

At least they won't admit their all-or-nothing approach.

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article UCs2f.471120$xm3.174829@attbi_s21,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Too many environmental activists refuse
to see any connection between their actions in the '60s and '70s, and the
long-term consequences.

to be more accurate: too many activists fail to see the negative
consequences
of their actions, only seeing little successes.

And as Michel Fumento has pointed out, most of those "successes" were
actually reforms that were well in place or developing strongly long before
regulations were enacted due to market pressures (dig out the story of
Alaskan fisheries and their water treatment facilities for a rib-splitting
laugher). The ones that still defy regulations are governmental entities,
mainly the Feds.

You still don't get it. The number of refineries doesn't matter...the
output does.

Mike
MU-2