What about the U.S. makes you mad?

[T'lainya]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Everything about the US makes me mad </STRONG>

Really Sleepy? I may have to start editing your posts

[vixen]

Originally posted by T'lainya:
<STRONG>Really Sleepy? I may have to start editing your posts </STRONG>

Go T!!!!

How are you doing? Congrats by the way!

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by T'lainya:
<STRONG>Really Sleepy? I may have to start editing your posts </STRONG>

The only bright side of the US is T'Lainya, she is the light in the darkness

[T'lainya]

@ Vix Thanks
@ Sleep Nice save

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by T'lainya:
<STRONG>@ Sleep Nice save </STRONG>

I could have been even more corny but i thought it sounded at least vaguely sincere, you have to bear in mind i am a bloke so poetic words struggle to come to the top, without some prompting

[thantor3]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Everything about the US makes me mad </STRONG>

LOL! Have you (and perhaps other posting here) considered that the US may not be the source of your madness?

[T'lainya]

LOL I thought you'd just look a line up somewhere

[Yshania]

Posted by Vixen -

A silver clio. I will be Nicole. Maybe. And I will fight you for the petrol vouchers!!!

Actually we had a couple left over - close to their use by date! I was FORCED to fill up my car!

A few months ago I was driving a Rover Sterling - 15 to the gallon (and we could not get enough vouchers to help that much!) . Now I have a Mondeo. Boring family car but 34+ to gallon. The problem is hubby also runs a Sterling (though now not that often!) and a big bike.

Our fuel bills exceed £100 per month....

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by thantor3:
<STRONG>LOL! Have you (and perhaps other posting here) considered that the US may not be the source of your madness? </STRONG>

Many times, but i still blame the US

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by T'lainya:
<STRONG>LOL I thought you'd just look a line up somewhere </STRONG>

Nah, that would be even worse, especially if you knew the line, then i would seem even more fake.

[T'lainya]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Nah, that would be even worse, especially if you knew the line, then i would seem even more fake. </STRONG>

LOL That could be embarrassing

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by T'lainya:
<STRONG>LOL That could be embarrassing </STRONG>

I can think of more embarrasing things, want me to name a few

[vixen]

Originally posted by Yshania:
<STRONG>Actually we had a couple left over - close to their use by date! I was FORCED to fill up my car!

A few months ago I was driving a Rover Sterling - 15 to the gallon (and we could not get enough vouchers to help that much!) . Now I have a Mondeo. Boring family car but 34+ to gallon. The problem is hubby also runs a Sterling (though now not that often!) and a big bike.

Our fuel bills exceed £100 per month.... </STRONG>

I had forgotten how much petrol costs....I don't think I will be doing that now!

@Sleep- where has all this charm come from???

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by vixen:
<STRONG>
@Sleep- where has all this charm come from???</STRONG>

I took lessons

[vixen]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>I took lessons </STRONG>

Has DP been instructing you on the use of hugs????

See ya later- off to catch some jazz.

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by vixen:
<STRONG>Has DP been instructing you on the use of hugs????

See ya later- off to catch some jazz.</STRONG>

*hug* see you later Vix

[T'lainya]

See ya Vix
@ Sleep..hmmm I'm not sure the world is ready for such revelations

[Sailor Saturn]

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>Wrong, our gas prices should be higher according to demand.</STRONG>

Yes, demand raises the price of gas; however, it would still be lower if we used the oil we have here in the US instead of importing oil from the Middle East or wherever it is we immport it from.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>The fact is, people in America will pay for it no matter how much they complain about it. You should consider yourself lucky that they aren't squeezing the US for all it's worth.</STRONG>

We pay for it because we have no choice. Again, just because it's cheapest here doesn't mean that's good enough.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>If you want lower gas prices, than you have to do something about it. Try your bike, car pools, or (to all Americans) get off the damn SUVs and buy an efficient car.</STRONG>

Can't use a bike. 1.) I have no bike. 2.) I'm in Arizona. If I rode a bike to and from school, I'd be dead before I got to school the first time because of the heat.

Carpooling ain't an option out here.

I have an '84 Pontiac Firebird. Considering it has the largest engine Pontiac made at the time, it gets good gas mileage because it has an automatic transmission with Overdrive. It gets about 20-25mph on the highway, though it currently needs a tune up. We just bought a 2001 Chevy Malibu, but my parents won't let me drive it except once in a while. I can't afford to buy a "more efficient car," though if I could afford to buy a new car, I probably wouldn't get an SUV.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>The only way prices will go lower is if demand goes down. But it won't, not with the way Americans think.</STRONG>

As I said before, gas prices would go down if we used OUR oil instead of importing someone else's oil. By importing their oil, we lose a lot of the control over prices necessary to keep the cost of gas down.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>Just a question: do you think gas prices are bad compared to the early 90s? Cause they aren't. I read an article at a time w/in a year ago when prices were rising, but were $1.30 in my neighbourhood (the low reached $0.99). Guess what it said, adjusted for inflation we still had the best prices ever, excluding the drop right before.</STRONG>

Gas prices were lower where I lived in the early 90s(in all 3 places) than they are where I live now and that's figuring in inflation.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>Now prices in my neighbourhood are back down to $1.35 (as opposed to $1.75 high) - so we're still in damn good condition compared to what people paid before the huge drop in prices.</STRONG>

Prices where I am had gotten down to about $1.30 over the summer(during which I hardly ever drove because of the heat and I have no AC in my car). Now they are going back up to $1.50-$1.70 here. My car has a 15 gallon gas tank. Last fall in Texas, I could fill up my tank for about $20. Here, it takes about $22-25. Gas averaged $1.19-$1.29 in Texas, and since I came to Arizona, the price of gas hasn't gotten below $1.30 per gallon, while the gas in Texas has remained at least 20-30 cents lower per gallon.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>Instead of being like the rest of the idiotic Americans, learn about something before you complain about it. Gas prices are not high, they have not been high since the summer before the plummet. Knowing what inflation is might help you understand that.</STRONG>

What you're saying may be right for the neighborhood you live in, but I know what it's been like for the past decade all over Texas and what it's like now in Arizona. Maybe you should learn more about a subject before you start an arguement. I know a lot more than you might think about inflation. I may not pay attention to politics, but I do pay attention to what things cost. With my limited funds and love of shopping, I have to.

Originally posted by Quark:
<STRONG>Now you know my pet peeve about America, it's American Whiners Inc.</STRONG>

*wacks you upside the head with the non-bladed end of her glaive* I am neither an American nor a whiner. I don't complain about something unless my complaint is legitimate. And when I do complain, I usually follow the idea that "she who complains loudest gets the most done." Most things about America that I could complain about, I don't give a duck about; however, things that effect how I spend my money, I do give a duck about.

Another thing, your complaint about complainers is hypocritical; and, if I gave a duck, hypocracy(sp?) would be my biggest complaint about America.

[Mr Sleep]

Originally posted by T'lainya:
<STRONG>See ya Vix
@ Sleep..hmmm I'm not sure the world is ready for such revelations </STRONG>

Yes better kept in my pan... i mean unsaid....

[Mr Sleep]

@SS don't automatics increase fuel consumption?