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(...) He did state using a SUV as a "commuter" was stupid. I'd tend to agree. Of course I drive an hour to work, so 15 MPG won't work for me 'cause I don't get paid that much. Also I want to blame those types of vehicles for why our gas prices have (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote in message <000f01bfedc4$bc6260...d0@SES>... (...) WHO'S TO BLAME FOR HIGH GAS PRICES? The Environmental Protection Agency, that's who. We learn this from a June 5th memo written for Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (you (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Travis, Many of us would agree with you. Driving in Los Angeles is complicated enough without adding cumbersome, useless SUVs onto our freeways and city streets. You can't see through them, or around them, and they tend to cut off anything (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Not disagreeing with you, just giving a different if not rambling point of view... Barbara and I drive a Chevy 3/4-ton, extended cab, short bed pickup; and a Ford Escort -- with the commuting emphasis leaning towards the pickup. Our commute time to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Folks, This is drifting off into a SUV debate, and not a lugnet general discussion. Please drop general if you have no LEGO issues to discuss. FUT off.topic.debate please Scott S. -- Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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Travis, (...) worried (...) (like (...) the (...) you (...) That's great. (...) don't get (...) There are always other jobs. It is a thriving economy, after all. (...) I blame the government, sir. No hee hee's needed. Scott S. -- (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James J. Trobaugh writes: The Clintonistas said the price spikes in the Midwest couldn't be I don't know why, but when I read a term like "Clintonista" it makes me want to tune out the rest of the dialog. It's like the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Absolutely right! ...It should be "Clintonisto". A "Clintonista" is usually just someone who has... You know... While wearing a raspberry beret... The kind that you find at a second-hand store... Actually, I have never before heard the term, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well Jeff that's an interesting way to look at things you don't agree with in life. If you see or read a word you don't like, heck just ignore the rest of the subject matter no matter if it is fact or fiction. It's attitudes like yours that (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, I don't think so. I just find terms like that to be signs of lazy thinking. A cute label gets put on a group by a clever radio commentator or columnist, and I can get some pleasure from that, but then the term get picked up and parroted (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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