So what happens when 100LL is gone anyway?

Sylvain,

I did look into that when I wanted to buy a 'Smart'


Hey, I thought we were discussing cars gd&r

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Bob,

Somewhat presumptuous of others to tell the US that
fuel economy is more important than tax revenues and
safety.


First, I'm not sure what the former has to do with the two latter. But
I'd be interested.

Second, fuel is still too cheap here, too.

Oil is a finite resource. I don't care whether it is exhausted in 10,
100 or 500 years. All I know is that when the time comes, mankind will
deeply regret to have burned it rather than put it to the many more
important uses that we have for it even today.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:40:48 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

You missed a link in the discussion. It appears that modern European diesel
engines are not available anywhere in the U.S.. It's been argued that this is
because California and New York don't allow them to be sold. In any case, you
can't buy them in Oregon.

Ah! Okay. Got it now!

Guess that means I stop buying imported New York and California wine.
Thank God for the Argentines!


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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:45:56 -0600, Newps wrote:

Any car/truck you import will have to meet the smog and
safety rules we have here.

Are you sure? I think you can buy a car and just drive it home.

Next town over, there used to be a garage that did a fair business
selling gray-market Volkswagens from Canada. I forget why the VWs
weren't importable. Maybe they were Beetles after the (old) Beetle
wasn't sold here any longer.


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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:50:09 -0700, Sylvain wrote:

the cars there seem to have both markings on their speedometer

So do those sold "here" -- in the U.S. It's been that way for twenty
years, it seems to me, though it may be because for twenty years I've
only bought Hondas.


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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:20:39 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Oil is a finite resource. I don't care whether it is exhausted in 10,
100 or 500 years.

Nah. It will never be exhausted. It will however become more
expensive.

When you are talking centuries going forward, you are into the
infinite. We've barely been using petroleum in any significant
quantity for a century. Think of sitting there at your computer in
1905! Could you even have dreamed of two cars in your driveway, one of
them built in Japan, and an airplane at your disposal a few miles off?

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Cub Driver wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:20:39 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote:


Oil is a finite resource. I don't care whether it is exhausted in 10,
100 or 500 years.


Nah. It will never be exhausted. It will however become more
expensive.

When you are talking centuries going forward, you are into the
infinite. We've barely been using petroleum in any significant
quantity for a century. Think of sitting there at your computer in
1905! Could you even have dreamed of two cars in your driveway, one of
them built in Japan, and an airplane at your disposal a few miles off?

Fossil fuel is a non-issue. Once enough time has elaspsed, the
neurotic fears about nuclear energy is go away. Nuclear energy is very
safe-- in the U.S., Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than
nuclear power plants.

Cub Driver wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:45:56 -0600, Newps wrote:


Any car/truck you import will have to meet the smog and
safety rules we have here.


Are you sure?

100%. Hell to take my Montana truck to California is a pain in the ass.

Cub Driver wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:50:09 -0700, Sylvain wrote:


the cars there seem to have both markings on their speedometer


So do those sold "here" -- in the U.S. It's been that way for twenty
years,

Yes for speed, although in Canada the kilometers are on the outside of
the ring, the big numbers. But there aren't too many cars whose
odometers show both. You'd have to take it in and have it converted.
All cars in Canada use kilometers.

Cub Driver wrote:

Thank God for the Argentines!

And the Australians.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.