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To: John Jamieson
Any SUV owners out there asking for a Federal handout?

Yes, just listen to them scream and whine when gas prices rise...

Meanwhile, I'll just continue to fill up every 10 to 14 days and get 52 MPG in the meantime. ;-)

22 posted on 01/04/2003 5:01:01 AM PST by Chemist_Geek
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To: Chemist_Geek
Me too. Y2K NB TDI and 2K3 Jetta Wagon TDI. The latter here with me in PA and I expect to be home, 650 miles away in nine or ten hours and on less than one tank of fuel.
26 posted on 01/04/2003 5:40:58 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com
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To: Chemist_Geek
Yes, just listen to them scream and whine when gas prices rise.

Not me. I drive my SUV approximately 15K miles per year at 18 mpg. If gas goes from $1.50 to $2.00 per gallon, then the additional cost to me is around $272 per year more than I would have to pay to drive the piece of crap that you drive. Since I'm in the 1% club, the extra $272 per year that I would save or spend (depending upon what side you're on) is neither going to make me rich nor poor nor change my life style one bit.

BTW, could you please explain how my neighbor is more green than I am simply because he drives a 40 mpg Honda 120 per day back and forth to work each day, when I only drive my 18 mpg SUV 6 miles round trip. On a typical day. Mr. Green burns 3 gallons of gas, whereas I use .34 gallons. And when you consider the energy that Mr. Green used to construct his 7600 square foot house where he lives with just his wife and dog (don't ask me which is which), plus the annual energy cost to maintain, heat, and cool his beautiful but unnecessary and overly extravagant place of abode, then perhaps Mr. Green should change his name to Mr. Pollute.

34 posted on 01/04/2003 6:24:42 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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