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Mikel Rider - Student  |
Well no not really but read it anyway... May 19th is national gas boycott day. With gas prices on the rise, something must be done to send a message to the gas companies. If no one in America buys gas on the 19th the gas companies will lose an estimated $45 MILLION dollars! If you're not happy with paying over $2.00/gallon please do not buy gas on May 19th. Please re-post this so that it will be able to reach as many people across the country as possible. _______________ Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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Well, I think before we can go bashing SUVs for not being fuel efficient, what about auto racing or other motorized sports? Shouldn't they be 1st on the list to be moderated since they're not a necessity? I don't have anything against any of those sports, but if there are going to be any kind of regulations, shouldn't we look at those 1st? Vasper is 100% correct about us trying to find better, cleaner source of energy. Like I said, the oil companies will probably do everything in their power to keep that from happening since that would cut into their profits. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Vasper Ba'xian - Student 
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I think the only thing that can be done bout the gas prices is for "mankind" to find a better, cleaner fuel source. The world is TOO dependent on oil. Things will not change until we do. _______________ Brother to: Tamal, Kavar, J.D.,Jermia, Devlin, Ulic, Xiabara, Seij,Tarron Mib,>>>ROCK ON  .My Spacescapes art page.My Everything Else art page. MY FAV. Jedi Are: Qui-Gon Jinn, Corran Horn, and Anakin Solo. Unofficial Master to Tamal. and Kavar. Founder of the Wuji Hundun Jian saber style. Proud owner of Tamal's 200th comment!//Proud owner of Refl3x's 300th comment!>>>Proud owner of Tyrant's 800th comment>>>Proud owner of Lucky's 170th comment>>>Proud owner of BDKawika's 444th comment>>>To except Existance is to except Reality.
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Mikel Rider - Student 
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Quote: No kidding sir! Suv's are terrible! More loopholes! We need standerds for engines, I don't really mind if people need suv's, I just think that people should have to put V4's in them. V12's in jagauars are ridiculous. The standerd must be used!! meh. I'm done ranting.. ps. I'm going hybrid asap. You ever driven a V8 stang, or Turbo charged V6, or anything more powerful than a V6 an anything lighter than a truck. Its like nothing else, puttin it in low gear and getting the rpms up to redline. It might sound crazy to you guys, but there is nothin else like havin 300+ HP in a car, heck even 200 is great. Sure you could get be with as little as 100 I would bet, but its no were near as fun. _______________ Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation. |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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People should decide for themselves what kind of cars to buy with their own money. I'm not in favor of a bunch of government bureaucrats and dictator wannabees telling me what kind of engine I can have. It's my car, not theirs. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Drathir - Student 
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No kidding sir! Suv's are terrible! More loopholes! We need standerds for engines, I don't really mind if people need suv's, I just think that people should have to put V4's in them. V12's in jagauars are ridiculous. The standerd must be used!! meh. I'm done ranting.. ps. I'm going hybrid asap. _______________ Where we ask the question, "Is real life really stranger than fiction, or is fiction about real life being stranger than fiction stranger than real life being stranger than fiction?" Ow. -Paradox Lost Want to read my slowly in progress webcomic? -TCTI |
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[HR]Knight - Student |
OMG MAY 19TH WAS MY BIRTHDAY!1  |
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SirBizNatch - Student 
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The least people could do is start driving fuel-efficient cars, SUV's are so unnecesary in New Jersey. It's stupid. _______________ Personal body guard to teh 1337 Jacen Aratan! Midbie Council Memeber||Member of the Almighty FiZZsters |
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Axion - Student 
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Quote: It's $2.35 a gallon where I live. that sux Chosen here i think its like $2.07 >_< curse this peice of poop economy  _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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cHoSeN oNe - Retired 
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It's $2.35 a gallon where I live. _______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
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Steinin - Student 
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Quote: In the US the money you see needs to go to things to pay for your healthcare though. Of course in the US you aren't supporting everyone else's health care either like you would in a socialistic country, and I do like that aspect. Actually that's quite good. I would rather pay taxes for some kid with a broken leg to get healed than pay for tax benefits for the rich. _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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Buzz - Student 
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Mikel I do not mean to pick on your intelligence at all. You said I was putting too much faith in your intelligence. More Socialistic countries like those in Europe as opposed to the US do have more benefits from the government and don't have to use their disposable income on things such as healthcare. They however pay a lot more in taxes than the US does. So the money they see is their disposable income. In the US the money you see needs to go to things to pay for your healthcare though. Of course in the US you aren't supporting everyone else's health care either like you would in a socialistic country, and I do like that aspect. I will agree with you Bandit about the US being more reliant on private transportation and longer commutes than europe. My college is 130 miles from my hometown. And it has not been that uncommon for me to return home 2 or more times in a month. That's 260 miles roundtrip, not including any additional driving I do. I'll go through almost a full tank of gas on one trip. With the prices going up I probably won't return home as much because of the gas prices, since a weekend trip home uses about as much gas as almost three full weeks in my college's city. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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The best thing to do, is just drive your car less. If you're not driving, you're not using gas. If you're not using gas, you're not filling up as often. If you're not filling up as often, you're not giving the gas stations your money. It takes longer than a day, but if enough people do this, it'll make more of a difference than just a one day boycott. The best solution, however, would be if the oil companies would invest some of their gross (as in deplorable, not total) profits into researching other forms of energy. Unfortunately, since the most obvious ones won't help them make $$$, they more than likely won't do it. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Mikel Rider - Student
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Quote: No Gradius, if you were to take the prices the rest of the world pays for gas, convert their currency into dollars, convert the liters into gallons, they would be paying $4 per gallon or more. We do have it cheap here in the US. We're just used to it being even cheaper. And Mikel its not too much faith in your intelligence, its no faith at all in the people that create these things. I would have to say it aint the price that is ticking every one off. I spend the same 10 bucks a week I always have. If the price bothered me I would adjust the electronic ECU in my car to run efficiently not fast, I wouldn't take the long way home because I enjoy the view, I wouldn't go driving on a nice day to clear my head. It aint the 2 bucks that bothers me, or most Americans I would guess, it is what the gas companies are doing. Prices Just keep goin right on up, with no end in sight. There is no reason for it, they promise that prices would level out, but that was about 50 cents ago, and they are still rising. I guess 2 bucks was that magic amount, when people got really Pied off. It was bound to happen sooner or later, or the gas companies would never stop raising prices, it was a question of how far they could go, heck I would do the same thing. And now we are there, people are starting to get mad. Now this Boycott day really will not do anything. No big loss to them. It is like kicking a giant in the shin. But at least it is something. That is the American way, it might not be right or work, but we are doing it. And it is a start. Maybe the companies will see people have taken all they can, maybe not, but at least we are trying something. No matter how absurd the idea is I will continue to support it because I am tired of businesses doing whatever they fin want. Now Buzz was pickin on my intelligents really necessary... n/m though, it don't bother me, I never have been one to care for what others think of me. _______________ Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation. |
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Bandit - Student 
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Quote: No Gradius, if you were to take the prices the rest of the world pays for gas, convert their currency into dollars, convert the liters into gallons, they would be paying $4 per gallon or more. We do have it cheap here in the US. We're just used to it being even cheaper. No argument that the gas is more expensive per gallon (or per liter) in Europe. But there are two factors why Americans feel it more that Europeans. 1) Europe tends to have a more socialistic society in which many programs, medical insurance for example, do not cost the average person. By comparison, my mother pays $14,000 a year in just insurance premiums! Therefore, the [i]average[/] European has more disposable income after taxes than his American counterpart (note: this is really just a guess and I haven't researched it) 2) Americans definitely are dependant more on the automobile that Europeans are... I commute on average 56 miles per day (almost 100 kilometers). This is not uncommon. Many Americans live in cities that are spread out and don't have dependable public transit systems. Therefore, most Americans travel a considerable amount more in private vehicles, and purchase considerably more gas as a result. That's probably why Americans complain more about gas prices than most Europeans. _______________ Part-Time Player (Weekend Warrior). Recipient of the prestigious "Longest-Post-Ever Award" (bestowed on me by Flash on March 23rd, 2004) |
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Bandit - Student 
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Quote: Nothing is free. But in the Skandinavian countries, and the Netherlands, who happen to be the most prosperous countries, people have paid enormous high taxes to pay for the not-so-fortunate. Everyone's been paying for year and years, and when you must have a surgery, it will be paid by the insurance, and that's paid by other people who insure. The government has a large part in this. So it's not free, it's been paid by your parents and your neighbour. But soon it won't be that perfect, the babyboom from after the war is getting old, and soon we'll have to pay the. That won't last long. My point was that medical insurance is not an expense for the average person and therefore not something that comes from the disposable income. I understand that the taxpayers are paying for the system. We have the same plight here with social security and our baby boomer generation. _______________ Part-Time Player (Weekend Warrior). Recipient of the prestigious "Longest-Post-Ever Award" (bestowed on me by Flash on March 23rd, 2004) This comment was edited by Bandit on May 19 2004 06:01pm. |
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Buzz - Student 
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No Gradius, if you were to take the prices the rest of the world pays for gas, convert their currency into dollars, convert the liters into gallons, they would be paying $4 per gallon or more. We do have it cheap here in the US. We're just used to it being even cheaper. And Mikel its not too much faith in your intelligence, its no faith at all in the people that create these things. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Okay you non-Americans need to think of it as in terms of currency. WE DO NOT HAVE IT CHEAP! Maybe cheaper than you because our currency is worth more in your country. But here, $10 a day for gass is a lot of money to some people. $10 a day turns into $70 a week, then that goes to about $280 a month, and that comes to $3,360 a year! Most Americans don't make more than $20,000 a year! We pay too much for gas. And by the way, Americans aren't the only ones using up all the fuel. Most of that fuel's getting burned up in airplanes and ocean liners. So think twice before saying we have it easy and we burn up most of the resources and such. We may be part of the problem but we're not the whole problem. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Menaxia - Student 
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Hearing Americans moan abvout petrol prices makes me laugh. You pay nothing for it over there and consume 75% of the world's production of oil products!!! 80p per litre over here. Beat that. _______________ This is not the place to look for me |
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Smilykrazy - Retired 
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omg its the 19th and i need gas!! YIKES!!  I got a flyer at my church about this! LOL _______________ RIP MOM 06/29/58-07/31/08 Married to Koyi Donita 4/30/11 |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Buzz I don't think it's going to work, in fact I almost know it won't. I was just pointing out why. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Mikel Rider - Student
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Buzz puts far to much faith in my intelligents. _______________ Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation. |
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Buzz - Student
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Actually Mikel, someone smarter than you did not come up with it. One day boycotts don't work. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Mikel Rider - Student
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Dang, you guys went crazy with this. I was jsut passin it on. I dunno if it will work or not, but I am sure someone much smarter than me came up with it, and they think it will do some good, so I ain't buyin gas tomorrow, thats all I got to say. Do it or don't, no more arguing weither or not it will work, in or out, no reasion needed. _______________ Using no way as way. Having no limitation as limitation. This comment was edited by Mikel Rider on May 19 2004 02:05am. |
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Buzz - Student
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Gradius it doesn't work and won't work. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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Well I don't think the whole point is to buy extra gas the day before or the day after. The whole idea is just for everyone to buy gas normally, and then tomorrow just don't, so that way all that extra gas is spared and the prices go down for a short period of time. Maybe all the crap about oil companies going bankrupt is a little exagerated I admit, but still hundreds upon hundreds of gas stations WOULD. Maybe not the companies who hold the station's name, but the actual stations themselves (the one's that are privately owned) would indeed go bankrupt because they only make about 2 cents off of every gallon. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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