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Maybe if our(only speaking for the US) government would stop sucking the dick of Big Oil, we would be able to make some progress in alternative fuels. The oil companies are constantly buying up various inventions used to stretch out our limited resources and restricting alternative fuel research. Of course, I don't think that will happen as long as we are a Democratic Republic. The people we vote in to represent us are already in someone else's pocket and they endeavor to keep the system a positive structure to maintain such conduct.
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Habermas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas coincidentally passed away today - RIP and Mosca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Mosca if you're interested in categorical critiques of modern liberal democracies (especially the latter) very interesting stuff Habermas does more of a sociological analysis though some wild thinking is also expounded by Kalyvas - really interesting way of looking at society http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1638
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To be honest, things would be better if I was Dictator... I'm open enough to take suggestions. If anyone would like to hear my plans, you know how to contact me. Lol. That'll never happen, but it's nice to dream.
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We were doing really well keeping this a non-political thread guys and gals, lets keep that up! Politics is one of those no-noes around here.
Back to the OP, out here in WA state gas at the nearest station to my place is $4.10 for regular. I put mid-grade in my car, which was $4.39 last I checked, down from $4.44 at the beginning of the month. There's a gas station near my work where it's about 20 cents more per gallon on everything, but considering I work at the airport and airport areas always have high prices, that's not representative. The cheapest place in the city is, I believe, $3.99 for regular, but only if you pay cash. I take the bus to work and back every day, driving just to the park and ride where I can board it. Parking cost at the airport is the real cause of my bus use ($26 a day), but gas would run me $10 a day by itself if I did the full 50 mile commute. With the buses, I can generally make a tank last two weeks, though just barely. A fill-up from as close to empty as I'll let it get broke $60 for the first time in my life at the beginning of the month. /grumble. Just 3 years ago, it was $25.
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Dans mon lit je rêve à Lilly Town Last edited by Cooney; 08-01-2008 at 04:22 AM.. |
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Things are getting better around here. I saw it the cheapest its been in months yesterday at a local station, for 3.48. Still expensive, but its part of a trend. Prices are going down a few cents every couple of days around here- they were ~3.80 at the lowest a week and a half ago.
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did you guys hear that Exxon made 11 billion last quarter
that is a record - no other free enterprise entity has ever made that much money in 3 months i heard that comes out to 11 thousand dollars per second (or something like that) wow! do think their board of directors are rich?
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