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Fuel protests turn violent in Paris
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| November 24, 2018
| ANCA GURZU
Posted on 11/24/2018 6:21:44 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: MichaelCorleone
If they had a sense of humour they could have sprayed them with gasoline.
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:24:27 AM PST
by
xp38
To: PJ-Comix
Our neighbor is set to escape from here in favor of wintering near Fort Myers...
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:24:44 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: PJ-Comix
Ms Gulf Coast is now down to $1.21/gallon....was paying $3.15+ for premium and now under $1.75.
Funny how them socialist places have high prices from over taxation..when I was in Italy in late '70s, gas was about the same for a liter as we were paying for a gallon....and they taxed car radios so many, with no radios, weren't grounded properly which made for popping static on TV and radio in the house as they drove by.
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:29:42 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: PJ-Comix
I wonder if there will be Yellow Jacket protests in California against the rise in gas taxes in order to pay for their Train to Nowhere. I believe the original cost was supposed to be about $10 billion but is now approaching $100 billion for that high speed train which was originally supposed to go from L.A. to San Francisco but has now been scaled back to end up at....Fresno?If the men who built and ran Iowa's WWI-era interurbans could see this, they'd be shoving yellow jackets up somebody's ashpan. They built fast, they built cheap (relatively), and by 1918, they could run electric coaches between terminals at an astonishing rate. What is more, they also managed to run freight trains at night.
I noticed the gasoline prices dropping steadily here in Iowa too. We may be barbarians and/or yokels, but we're barbarians and/or yokels who are out driving around.
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:30:31 AM PST
by
niteowl77
("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
To: niteowl77
I remember walking the interurban from Mystic to Brazil (Iowa.)
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:33:56 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Nice. $2.03 here in northern SC at Costco.
To: PJ-Comix
To the barricades once again.
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:47:11 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: PJ-Comix
Ew - water cannons. I like water cannons.
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:48:43 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: PJ-Comix
Nice to see that some people still have the balls to fight an oppressive government.
Macron is a liberal masquerading as a centrist.
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posted on
11/24/2018 7:59:52 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
To: PJ-Comix
“Hopefully $1.99/gal soon down here in South Florida.”
Saw 1.86 in San Antonio yesterday.
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:01:34 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("We The People" has turned into "You, The Subjects.")
To: PJ-Comix
The French riot against higher taxes.
Americans vote for higher taxes.
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:03:18 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
“Do you hear the people sing?”
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:04:30 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: bytesmith
Nice...I always fill up when on my way to Georgia, in SC...
Here in Somerset County, PA..(The Wolfe state) gas is still high, at $2.80 gal. and people voted the Wolfe back for a second term...smh, this family didn't but then we are just a grain of sand and don't count...smh again...It is the voters in Pittsburgh and Philly that control this state, and they mostly don't work, so no skin off them..let the workers pay to keep them..
Certainly sad days ahead for all of us with the Democrats taking over the House, maybe (hopefully) voters will wake up by 2020..
To: dfwgator
LOL!!! When the revolutionaries bring out the Red Flag in Les Mis I cheer for the Orleanist forces to mow them all down.
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:08:52 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: Eric in the Ozarks
That was the Mystic-to-Centerville branch of the SI, wasn't it? It was under overhead wire even longer than the WCF&N, if my memory is correct.
The worst of the old coal mine and steel rail "robber barons" couldn't hold a candle to the current collection of California crooks.
(Unintentional alliteration gone wild... but what the heck.)
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:14:25 AM PST
by
niteowl77
("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
To: PJ-Comix
nothing to see here ... move along ... transportation fuel taxes will be moot in 2040 anyway when when france has outlawed all internal combustion vehicles ...
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:16:28 AM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: niteowl77
Yes. The interurban ran to Centerville.
My old hometown of Mystic is still there.
Brazil, Darby, Monkey, Iconium, Confidence and Plano are gone.
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:18:46 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: mandaladon
I was In Paris in mid 70s...gas was at least $4/lite then, I think
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:19:00 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
To: mandaladon
Yeah, that’s a lot, but we’ve had 25% fluctuations in fuel prices.
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posted on
11/24/2018 8:50:24 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Ask me about my Marine!)
To: PJ-Comix
"Macron has insisted that the fuel tax rises are a necessary pain to reduce France's dependence on fossil fuels and fund renewable energy investments"https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-police-use-tear-gas-water-cannon-against-paris-protesters
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posted on
11/24/2018 9:41:03 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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