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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Oct 2008
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Gas prices .. some good news
Boater wrote:
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On Nov 12, 4:38 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"JR North" wrote in message
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Gas your pigs up while you can. Not gonna tow Cruis'n Rulz! to the
pump. Gonna just get 5 gal at a time and fill her up at home. Don't
expect the prices will hold till next spring. If you wait, you
might
just find it back to $4
JR
Nobody likes a spoilsport.
You're gonna give "O" some ideas of things to raise taxes on in
order
to force you to
buy an oversized golf cart which is what he's gonna force Ford,
GM and
Chrysler to build if they want a bailout.
Eisboch
Heaven forbid U.S. car makers produce mostly high quality,
smaller, fuel
efficient cars that people want to buy and dump most of the
oversized,
overpowered, mediocre quality V8's behemoths that get 13 mpg. Or
less.
Again, you get it wrong. If the vast majority of people wanted to buy
smaller, fuel efficient cars,
Detroit would have been be turning them out by the millions for
years.
That may change (and it should), but the point is .... Detroit builds
what people buy.
Eisboch
Apparently Detroit builds what people don't what to buy.
sigh
Correct. This year. Or, more accurately the past 6 months.
Eisboch
Ford and GM took a look at trying to compete with Honda, Toyota and
Nissan in the small, efficient cars ten years ago. They were
completely unable to compete because of the labor cost in their
vehicles compared to their competion, thanks to the UAW.
Their only way to make enough money to continue to meet the finacial
obligation forced on them by union labor was to continue to build high
profit SUVs and trucks. Now that that's over, the UAW slobs with
barely a high school education living on easy street may have to
tighten their belts to allow the auto makers to survive. Heh.. will
that happen? Of course not... the unions say screw everyone else, we
got ours!
Such hatred for the working man and woman...typical.
Oh...the Japanese aren't saddled with the high cost of providing health
care for their employees and retirees.
Come on asshole. There is nothing wrong with EARNING high pay and being
showered with benefits. There is no incentive for union employees to
EARN their keep. They get paid the same weather they do excellent work,
mediocre work, or no work. Have you found that little surprise on the
Union web site yet? I wish I could be there when you discover it.
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