Gas $3 a gallon by the end of year.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Gas $3 a gallon by the end of year.

Yeah, but that's Suffolk! They haven't quite caught up with the 21st century out there yet ;-)

To Bill Dayson: our public transport system may be well developed over here, but it's still awfully spotty in places (as I'm sure any of airtorn's colleagues at Lakenheath and Mildenhall who have found themselves without a car at the weekend have found out), and more than that, it's expensive! It's the best part of $10 for an all day, off peak ticket on the underground in London and if I want to take the train to Oxford or Cambridge (both of which are about 50 miles away), it'll cost me about $30.

Angela

 

Not in the best taste Bill...

 

Speaking as somebody who was on the Piccadilly line last night and who was doing my best to try to get to Tavistock Square on the 7th of last month, I thought it was rather good.

Real tastelessness is the kind of person who blows up a tube carriage and thinks they're going to paradise.

Angela

 

Angela,

We can agree to disagree. I feel it is best to treat topics which involve loss of innocent life with a little less flipancy. I'm sure no ill was meant.

Anyway, it's Friday.

All the best,

Dave C.

 

I'm not being rude about the senseless waste of life. I do, however, have to use the Tube, as does my husband every day to Liverpool Street. Being flippant is my way of coping with the fact that all the possible routes home from some very nice Tapas in the City last night have been bombed in the past month and a bit.

I suspect I've inherited my well dodgy sense of humour from my mother . . . who moved to London from the Republic of Ireland just in time for the V1 and V2 campaigns.

But as you say, it's Friday, and Australia are three down.

Angela

 

Public transport..

Your public transport may be spotty but ours is almopst nonexistent here. I have a train station three blocks from my house. The line on which it sits is a straight shot to a train station three blocks from where I work. Another couple of thousand people (or more) work here and live along that track. However, not a single commuter train is scheduled so I drive 50 minutes one way to get to work. Gas is making a much bigger dent in the budget and the state is constently maintaining the road we all use every day. Pretty ridiculous....

 

I'm Dublin-born Angela...
Either way we can model a friendly respectful difference of opinion.

The convicts are truly on the run...go Freddy.

I've just looked out the window and it's tipping down, and it's been sunny all week. I must go back to expat status...

 

I was heading West (er... well... technically West-Southwest) on Trancas Street in Napa, California this morning, turning North (er... well... technically, North-Northwest) onto Solano Avenue, and I noticed on the sign at the Chevron station on the Northwest corner that the highest grade (super premium or whatever it's called) is $2.95/gallon.

On the TV news last night, I saw that a San Francisco Chevron station is already at $3.15/gallon for that grade; and that the lowest "regular" grade is not far behind.

EDIT: Oops. I just read back in the thread and realized that Bill already wrote something about that. Oh, well. He beat me to the observation, but I still saw it on TV last night... or was it the night before? Can't remember.

So much for "by the end of the year."

It took years and years to get from $1.00 to $2.00, but seemingly only months to get from $2.00 to $3.00...

...and all during the presidency of a man with huge and deep (no pun intended) oil interests.

Coincidence?

 

It's an evil totalitarian plot, Mr. DesElms.

 

I agree. I thought Bill's little parenthetical remark was both clever (or at least humorous) and apropos.

It's the virgins they're after. Killing for pussy: Now that's tasteless... er... um... no pun intended.

(Well... that certainly ought to put a new twist on the tasteless humor debate! Now bracing...)

 

Exactly, for all our pondering as to who did what when, it does not amount to a hill of beans. All the average citizen cares about are issues that affect them directly. What kind of issues do you say? Issues like the crazy price of gasoline, and under who's watch? For heavens sake! This next next election will result very differently than the last few times.

Abner

 

But can we really wait that long to throw the bastards out?

 

If I had my way, they would be our right now. But oh well! Just let us wait for the right time my friend. Every dog has his day, as the saying goes. We have a prez who doesn't even have the cajones to meet with the mother of a fallen soldier, how gutless can you get!


Abner

 

No... just a Bushian/Bin Ladenian one.

And as to your general disbelief... go ahead and laugh, Chuckles. We'll just see how history looks back on it in twenty or thirty years when all the players are dead and some of the truth has bubbled to the surface. You really believe that Bush43 thought there were weapons of mass destruction? You think Bush41's whack at it wasn't just blood for oil? Think again.

And mark my words. Let's circle back to this discussion in 2030.

 

First of all, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I think IWI & IWII were both evil totalitarian plots by GBI & GBII to destroy civil liberties in the US. And, of course, the war can always be used as an excuse to jack up gas prices, especially when all his oil buddies have His Majesty's permission.

Second of all, if you really want to circle back to this discussion, better do it rather a bit before January 21, 2022, because I pretty much plan on dropping dead from a massive heart attack on my sixtieth birthday.

 

Oops. I guess I misread you. My bad... and apologies.

Please don't do that. I'm serious.

 

You know, DesElms, maybe you're right. I just looked at my wishlist of future graduate degrees and there's no way in gehenna they're all going to get finished in under 17 years.

 

Bracing for the Debate on Tasteless Humor?

Well, on the tastelessness issue, I'd say, "tastes great and less filling than your regular beer!"

 

Re: Bracing for the Debate on Tasteless Humor?

Ha! Just when we thought we had sunken to floor level, in comes Ted, who finds a trap door therein, and takes it even lower.

So you're saying that I should hope for your never completing your desired graduate degrees because that'll be the only thing keeping you alive? Or that once you have 'em, God can take you? Sure hope not... but if that's the only way we can keep you around, may I suggest another masters in...

 

Cajones? He doesn't have any box drums?

And, of course, Bush did meet her.

Those Fat Congas folk should pay me for all the hits I've given them.