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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
Then too, it can be foolishly optimistic (I hate the "irrationally exuberant" poop), as in the dot.com craze. Yet, how much did the murder of the telecom industry have to do with the dot.com collapse and subsequent/parallel market implosion? An enormous amount. The dot.com bubble was built on telecoms. The implosion in demand for all this extra fibre that was put in (as well as the wildly overoptimistic expectations for 3G services - telecom companies ploughed vast amounts of money into 3G licenses which were ALL to do with the dot.com bubble) - then the bubble went away leaving telecoms firms with huge amounts of unused bandwidth, empty datacentres, and no demand for 3G mobile services - but they had to keep paying the bills they'd run up in investing in all this kit that there was no demand for. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
About 40MPG and 50MPG for the diesel. Such a car would likely be "useful" out in the west where distances are measured in three or even four digits and those are MILES not klicks. Actually - they are even more useful in cities. Diesel cars generally do a lot better than gasoline ones in start/stop traffic. My Dad's old diesel Peugeot got 40+ MPG on short and long trips - however my gasoline Audi gets about 35mpg when cruising long distances, and only about half that in local driving. My next one will be a TDi. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Chris wrote:
Its not just a question of the price at the pump but the cost of the mile. This goes a long way to redress the balance between the cost of petrol and the taxes. Besides by using at a slower rate, perhaps fuel will be available longer. The future won't be a hydrogen economy (I reckon) - it'll be a diesel economy. It's much easier to convert the diesel infrastructure to use non-crude oil based fuel than it is to move to a hydrogen economy. We already run our glider club's vehicles on waste cooking oil from one of the pubs (it does have to be cleaned first - but the 'refining' process uses a tiny fraction of the energy that the fuel gives - and the oil would otherwise just be burned or thrown out if we didn't use it to power our diesel vehicles). -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Newps wrote:
Such a car would likely be "useful" out in the west where distances are measured in three or even four digits and those are MILES not klicks. I don't think so. I'm not driving around anywhere in a car the size of a beer can. When I hit you, or a deer, etc I want to know I'm walking away. My Dad's last diesel station wagon managed 40+ MPG, and that was certainly not a 'beer can' sized car. It also lasted over 350,000 miles. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
Which is why I put "useful" in quotes. Their engines are not built, I'd guess, for the speeds or distances involved out here. Speeds are generally much higher in Europe than the western US. Additionally, take the range of a Volkswagen Jetta TDi - it'll get around 700 miles off a tank of diesel. It will also give good power in the mountains, I have friends in Utah who love their TDi. My Dad's last diesel, a Peugeot, lasted over 350,000 miles. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article 6adae.2502$RD.1939@trndny02, George Patterson wrote:
How prevalent is the use of a cat in Europe these days? Ten years ago, nearly Completely. You can't even buy leaded car gas in the British Isles. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Matt Barrow wrote: Then too, it can be foolishly optimistic (I hate the "irrationally exuberant" poop), as in the dot.com craze. Yet, how much did the murder of the telecom industry have to do with the dot.com collapse and subsequent/parallel market implosion? An enormous amount. The dot.com bubble was built on telecoms. The Yes and no. The dot.com were built under the assumption, roughly, that everyone was going to turn off their TV and surf the net and make all their purchases over the net. implosion in demand for all this extra fibre that was put in (as well as the wildly overoptimistic expectations for 3G services - telecom companies ploughed vast amounts of money into 3G licenses which were ALL to do with the dot.com bubble) They did so under the orders of the FCC. (See first article below). - then the bubble went away leaving telecoms firms with huge amounts of unused bandwidth, empty datacentres, and no demand for 3G mobile services - but they had to keep paying the bills they'd run up in investing in all this kit that there was no demand for. Sorta! "Who killed Telecom": http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa533.pdf "Telecom Undone- A Cautionary Tale": http://www.manhattan-institute.org/h...mm-telecom.htm "The Perils of Transition": http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/eps...ransition.html |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:cE5ae.8683$NU4.4645@attbi_s22... We do, indeed, have the most dunderheaded legal system ever devised by man. Yes, but are you willing to admit that makes YOU a dunderhead? That is, will you agree with the French who express their disbelief that people so dunderheaded ever spawned men like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams? Sadly, I suppose, I must indeed share the blame for having done NOTHING to fix our incredibly broken legal system. I fear nothing short of revolution will clear the decks. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" To be fair, our legal system has always been the way it is now. Most of the profits from the Comstock silver bonanza in the 1860's were consumed in litigation over who owned the claims. Mike MU-2 |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Matt Barrow wrote: About 40MPG and 50MPG for the diesel. Such a car would likely be "useful" out in the west where distances are measured in three or even four digits and those are MILES not klicks. Actually - they are even more useful in cities. That's my point; the "useful" was in quotes because I was be facetious. Many Europeans tell us we should drive microcars, but they have no comprehension of just how big and spread out the US is. -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:AbO9e.5855$WI3.1063@attbi_s71... It proves no such thing. American enumeracy at work. The land mass of France, as far as I can determine from a quick sweep, is one 18th that of the US. Is their number of pilots and/or airports an eighteenth of those in this country? Since when do potential pilots decide to become pilots based on the available *land mass*? What kind of logic is THAT? Why do you think that there are more pilots per capita in AK than anywhere else even though the affordability of flying in AK is much less than in the lower 48? Mike MU-2 |
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