Avgas in France has reached $7.50/gal !

tony roberts wrote in news:nospam-
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What did you find surprising?

Well - it was the first blatantly racist post I ever saw here.

Racist?

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"tony roberts" wrote in message
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What did you find surprising?

Well - it was the first blatantly racist post I ever saw here.

Tony

I don't believe, in fact I know, "French" is not a race.


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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE



Serves them right. It's just too bad that general aviation is
virtually
dead in a country that served as an early incubator for flight.

Makes you wonder how people so dunder-headed ever spawned men like
Bleriot...
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"




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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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The title says it all.

Serves them right. It's just too bad that general aviation is virtually
dead in a country that served as an early incubator for flight.

Makes you wonder how people so dunder-headed ever spawned men like
Bleriot...

People who live in glass houses..........

Serves them right. It's just too bad that general aviation is virtually
dead in a country that served as an early incubator for flight.

Makes you wonder how people so dunder-headed ever spawned men like
Bleriot...

People who live in glass houses..........

Shouldn't throw stones? Hey, I'm flying twice a week, burning that sweet
car gas at "only" $2.08 per gallon. Stick *that* in your pipe and smoke
it.

If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would be
standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of
Americans. For some odd reason, the French just go "Se la vie" and shrug
their shoulders.

I'll say it again: It serves them right. They've got the government they
deserve.

I only feel bad for the common men who gaze skyward, fruitlessly. What a
shame.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would
be
standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of
Americans.

No they won't!

Day after tomorrow is tax day and no one is even flinching. MOF, as much as
people detest the tax code, only a very small percentage would be willing to
change it (and give up THEIR goodies/subsidies).
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._ap_ipsos_poll


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would
be
standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of
Americans.

No they won't!

Day after tomorrow is tax day and no one is even flinching.

I think you're wrong, Matt.

The Federal tax code has been carefully -- even diabolically -- written so
that the average Joe on the street has NO idea what he's actually paying in
taxes. By forcing employers to withhold the tax BEFORE the employee ever
sees the money, the Gubmint not only guarantees payment, it guarantees
acquiescence.

Bottom line: The government keeps the tax laws inscrutably complex quite on
purpose, lest they provoke an uprising.

Gas prices, on the other hand, are plain as day transparent, and people are
already ****ed as hell. The Bush administration is crapping their pants
right now, watching GW's approval rating plummet, primarily because of
rising gas prices.

If it hit $7.50 a gallon, you would see a revolution in America.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would
be
standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of
Americans. For some odd reason, the French just go "Se la vie" and shrug
their shoulders.


Don't worry it will be up there pretty soon, the price of avgas has doubled
in the last 4 years, say double up again in another 4 and there you have it.

AliR.

"AliR" writes:

If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would
be
standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of
Americans. For some odd reason, the French just go "Se la vie" and shrug
their shoulders.


Don't worry it will be up there pretty soon, the price of avgas has doubled
in the last 4 years, say double up again in another 4 and there you have it.

Yup. Only the money will go to support corrupt mid-east governments
who after hiring foreign labor to do their own work, hand the money
left over to terrorists. Wait...that doesn't sound *so* different
from what I see here....

In article fvg7e.11984$GJ.11256@attbi_s71, Jay Honeck wrote:
Americans. For some odd reason, the French just go "Se la vie" and shrug
their shoulders.

It's "C'est la vie" - and if you think that, you don't know the French
well at all. They are famous for shutting down the country if they don't
get what they want. French people generally are also fairly left-wing;
they aren't US Republicans.

I only feel bad for the common men who gaze skyward, fruitlessly. What a
shame.

Generally, they don't. They just fly planes that burn less fuel.

Why must so many threads in this NG turn into vitriolic political rants?

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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"

They also shut the country down during lunch time ;-)
Good idea by the way.

-Kees