"traveler" <Vallecito@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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May 8, 9:56 pm, B1ackwater <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Pope Wears Prada <The_Pope@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >Midwinter wrote:
> >> The Pope Wears Prada <The_Pope@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
> >>> Expect $5 a gallon gas by year's end and $6 a gallon by the end of
> >>> 2009.
>
> >> Oh, you poor darlings (again). Try running a car in the UK for a few
> >> months.
>
> >> We're on £1.10 per *litre* already and still climbing. I make that
> >> about
> >> $8.16 a US gallon.
>
> >Well boo hoo hoo for you. You should have come to America when you had
> >the chance.
>
> > So I guess ours was a space rocket.
>
> The price of gasoline will be $5+ well before 2009 ... more like
> the end of 2007.
>
> International speculators - beyond the reach of any one nation ...
> will make SURE of it. Chinese/Indian demand will help things along.
>
> Americans who bought all those 6-MPG SUVs so they'd feel like a
> "real man" (or "real soccer-mom") ... DOOMED. May as well have
> the damned thing crushed into a cube right now.
>
> And the AUTOMAKERS ... totally ignored the writing that's been on
> the wall for YEARS now. Instead or re-tooling they kept making the
> SUVS. Now, when the real crisis hit, they've got insufficient
> inventories of economical vehicles to sell (and the credit-harried
> Americans can't afford to pay the desired rip-off prices for 'em
> anyway).
>
> The ONLY smart automaker ... VOLKSWAGEN. They've polished-up their
> small 's****ty'-car line, even offering their mini-diesel now to the
> American market. THEY will sell everything they can make.
>
> Buy VW stock.
Yeah, I like the Mini Cooper. Seriously, though, you can't just
switch to small vehicles to haul your boat or your trailer
My diesel Jetta could haul a boat. It's got a manual transmission and
pssstt.. it's a diesel.
-Eddie Haskell
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