why that was nice

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

To be honest with you, I am totally with you.
This will be the only way that my argument on dependency VS. fule efficiency would be realized.

SO many think I have lost my mind when I tell them they still have alternatives. Sure, riding a bike to a local job seems pathetic, but it is still a choice to the alternative.

If gas got to the level you indicated in OP, then a job at $10/hr that can one can ride a bike to would seem as a more viable option.

I support your thought. I think it would bring us back to more of a sense of community. Noting like 2nd cousins getting married because the next town is too far way.

its started to warm up here. i've just started riding my bike to work about a mile away lol.

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

Your.

you think that was an accident?

joke....or accident????? you be the judge

i say joke, but the world may never know.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

its started to warm up here. i've just started riding my bike to work about a mile away lol.

It's true.

People wouldn't just curl up and die if gas got expensive... they would adapt. OMG!!

 

[MyFartsStink 10+ year member]

I see a new depresion happening.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

joke....or accident????? you be the judge
i say joke, but the world may never know.

ambiguity, the hallmark of greatness.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I'm a lot more scared of a renewed cold war.

It's a lot more frightening.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

As a consequence, two dominant moods now motivate the Kremlin élite: schadenfreude at the U.S.'s discomfort and a dangerous presumption that Russia can do what it wishes, especially in its geopolitical backyard. The first has led Moscow to take malicious slaps at America's tarnished superpower status, propelled by feel-good expectations of the U.S.'s further slide. One should not underestimate Russia's resentment over the fall of the Soviet Union (Putin has called it the greatest disaster of the 20th century) and its hope that the U.S. will suffer the same fate. Indeed, Kremlin strategists surely relish the thought of a U.S. deeply bogged down not only in Iraq but also in a war with Iran, which would trigger a dramatic spike in the price of oil, a commodity in plentiful supply in Russia.

The second mood--that Russia has free rein to act as it pleases on the international scene--is also ominous. It has already tempted Moscow to intimidate newly independent Georgia; reverse the gains of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; wage aggressive cyberwar against E.U. member Estonia after the Estonians dared to remove from the center of their capital a monument celebrating Soviet domination of their country; impose an oil embargo on Lithuania; monopolize international access to the energy resources of Central Asia. In all these cases, the U.S., consumed as it is by the war in Iraq, has been rather passive. U.S. policy toward Russia has been more grandiloquent than strategic.

I'd make a thread about it, but it wouldn't go anywhere, it's too intellectual for the lounge.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

die in a fire

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Repo rates are climbing due to the fact more subprime lending sources are extending credit to consumers with bad credit and it is at a much higher 24-27% interest rate . Internet lending sources are popping up everyday, and I work for alot of them. I am The Repo Man.

Depends on what they are lending for. In many states, a ceiling still remains for mortgage lending. In TN, it is 21%. I am sure KY still has a cap as well.

I don't think increasing the cost of gasoline would destroy our nation or way of life, as long as it's a steady gradual increase. I actually think that even if the price of oil doesnt steadily creep up on its own we should increase taxes on it until it's $10-15 a gallon.

It would only work if we simultaneously shifted our culture away from materialism. However, our economic structure insists we blow our money. You cannot live to the left of the aggregate demand function. At least not perpetually.

you guys are making me blush.
If you tihnk i'm fun here you would LOVE me in my social policy class. Its basically a debate class where every week you play a role from a 40 page packet of information on some issue.. the only assignment for the class (beside being prepared to debate an issue every week) is creating a 40 page binder on an issue of your choosing.

I pwn that class and everyone in it.

My monetary seminar class is similar...but since we have to prove our stance with data and models, the fight becomes who is better at math rather than the real issue. Which is cool, but sucks at the same time...I think we sometimes miss the point.

not if it's legal, just grow your own //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
Credit cards is why this county is in so much debt. The % on them is crazy.

the only reason gas is high is cuz bush is allowing it since he gets a %. 11-15 dollars is outrages. there is no need for it to be that high. If it was that high i wouldn't be able to take my girlfriend out on dates as much as i can now. if you work far away from home you wouldn't be able to go to work then come back home. you would end up using your entire pay check on gas. There is alot of things you have to consider with gas that high, what if you lost your job.

~Fuzzy

If you lost your job, you wouldn't need gas to get there now would you?

To be honest with you, I am totally with you.
This will be the only way that my argument on dependency VS. fule efficiency would be realized.

SO many think I have lost my mind when I tell them they still have alternatives. Sure, riding a bike to a local job seems pathetic, but it is still a choice to the alternative.

If gas got to the level you indicated in OP, then a job at $10/hr that can one can ride a bike to would seem as a more viable option.

I support your thought. I think it would bring us back to more of a sense of community. Noting like 2nd cousins getting married because the next town is too far way.

I couldn't ride a bike to where I work. It's roughly 15 miles away from the next house. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

That would be a hella bike ride.

exxon is part of my mutual fund...i aint hating

Indeed. But I doubt the appreciation in gas prices is the same as the appreciation of your portfolio. You are still losing.

I see a new depresion happening.

If gas quadrupled overnight...perhaps. But not gradually. Our country is very welcome of change, but no economic system welcomes such drastic shocks.

I'd make a thread about it, but it wouldn't go anywhere, it's too intellectual for the lounge.

I think you should.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

So i really hate the blacks, browns and yellows, but now i'm starting to question my whole belief system.

I met a really cool person, who i thought was white, but it turns out they are just a black albino. I didnt know this until i went to their house and noticed their whole family was black.

Now i'm confused and not sure if i can still even call myself a racist.

Please help.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

You are white, thus still a racist.

/thread.

 

[ArrizX 10+ year member]

So i really hate the blacks, browns and yellows, but now i'm starting to question my whole belief system.
I met a really cool person, who i thought was white, but it turns out they are just a black albino. I didnt know this until i went to their house and noticed there whole family was black.

Now i'm confused and not sure if i can still even call myself a racist.

Please help.

Of course you can.

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

You are a very bad person....what would your mother say..

 

[yunvme666 10+ year member]

see what you did now......lol....

 

[bigbirney420 10+ year member]

What color is his soul? Thats the color you should hate.