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To: Kenny Bunk
KB, if those diesels are SUVs that is a winning platform. I say toss your chapeau in the ring!

You don't have a bevy of pissed off women in your background who can scuttle your campaign, do you?

PS I am somewhat pro-sewer, actually.

As was Benjamin "Beast" Butler, the yankee oppressor of New Orleans! The local femmes fâchés were in the habit of dousing the Beast with the contents of their chamber pots which likely added to his enthusiasm for plumbing.

40 posted on 11/09/2011 8:02:14 AM PST by Pelham (Every nation that rose to power did so by protecting its manufacturing base)
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To: Pelham
The local femmes fâchés were in the habit of dousing the Beast with the contents of their chamber pots which likely added to his enthusiasm for plumbing.

Thank you for adding to my store of Civil War incunabula. Norlyuns still has the aroma of a town where this custom has not entirely disappeared. BTW, Why our SUV's, which are also splendid beasts, are not powered by 2.5liter turbodiesels is completely beyond me. Someone high up in the EPA apparently was frightened in utero by a 1948 Mercedes 190 diesel and is singlehandedly keeping them out of the country. Diesel fuel has also been totally jiggered about to be "sulfur-free" and as a result, instead of being a brown liquid with just the larger dino turds and sticks filtered out, now resembles virgin olive oil, except it is more expensive. I was used to paying about 15 cents per gallon for the aggie version of the crap, which of course we used in everything from our trusty MB 300TD to a lobsterboat and Oliver Tractor.

The Japs run run their Corollas with a really nice 1.8l diesel, @ 55mpg. Here a Corolla is quite needlessly faster off the line than a 1965 Ferrari. Wat's wit dat?

BTW, in my careless youth, I was in Libya, where the oil comes out of the ground just about ready to become diesel fuel. Beautiful stuff!

41 posted on 11/09/2011 1:28:41 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure this eligibility stuff out?)
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