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If sales go up, profits should as well.

Not necessarily.


Why not? the fixed costs remain the same, so there should be higher
margins even.


There are too many reasons for increased sales, and too many different
types of businesses. Meat sock's blanket statement was silly.


But with good management, the profits should go up.


In all types of businesses? That's next to impossible, unless, of course,
you want to shut down your production facilities and move them overseas. Not
always possible, though.

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jps wrote:


$18,308 to have the privilege of driving a Cadillac for 39 months. I'd
rather make payments on a boat or summer cabin and have the 2nd home
write off.

Name me a single car with an MSRP over $40k that you could drive for less
than $18,500 over 39 months. Don't forget to include tax!


That's dependent on leasing. Most people don't lease.

More people are all the time. There is a surplus of out-of-lease cars
and many leasing companies have exited the business.


Driving a vehicle over $40k for 39 months isn't a function of the value
of the car, it's a function of how many they've sold and how aggressive
the financing rates they're willing to offer to get you in the car.

The real value in a car is after you've paid it off and drive it another
50,000 miles. That's when the cost/mile goes down. Your cost/mile has
to be astronomical.

I like leases since the car is always fairly new, less likely to break
down, is always under warranty, and routine maintenance is covered (some
cars). There are other considerations due to business use, but I have
leased my last seven cars, only two of them since I started my business.

And, in order to purchase that car post-lease, you'd be buying a car
that's worth 2/3 of the residual. Cadillac will have to write off the
loss when it's incurred.

I don't know why anyone would purchase their car after the lease is up.
In some states you will pay sales tax twice. I have had very good
offers to keep cars, but not good enough to move to the next, new car.

Welcome to American cars.

jps

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Harry Krause wrote:

Fred Dehl wrote:

Harry Krause wrote in
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Most US cities cannot be evacuated on short notice under any
circumstances, and out in the boonies, there typically isn't the
infrastructure to handle heavy traffic.


Put Ray Nagin in charge of the buses and an evacuation will run fine.



Yawn.

Maybe you ought to go back to cursing, fella.

Hopefully he got his slap on the wrist.

Dan

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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:16:32 -0500, Wayne.B
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Using my numbers, the second 100,000 miles is almost free!

the way we look at it, we break even on the purchase price around 75k
- the rest is a freebie.

and if those idiots at ford ever offer zero percent financing again,
well probably finance it.

We purchased a new Ford Focus for my daughter last year as we could not pass
up the rebates and employee pricing offered to all buyers..........we got
the car for about 25% off sticker. We could not even have purchased a used
2004 Focus at the price we got.

The Big 3 sold their souls/shot their wads with the employee pricing,
rebates and 0% financing over the past couple of year. Folks who may not
have purchased a new car for several more years down the road took advantage
of those deals, taking them out of the picture for car new sales in 2006 and
2007. So besides losing money on the incentives, the Big 3 has a smaller
pool of prospective buyers over the next couple of years.

Add to the mix the financial/benefit commitments the Big 3 made to their
workers (most importantly health benefits to retirees) and the increasing US
market share of *imports* (many now made here) and you have a very unstable
future for the Big 3.

Not a good thing for the US.

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"DSK" wrote in message
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The answer to all three is 'not even close' so therefor it's hardly
equal, is it?


NOYB wrote:
The actual answer was "yes" to 2 of the 3 questions.

It may be "yes" to all of the questions, but I haven't the time to lookup
what their budget was.

You're kidding right?

Here's the problem for you- reality. Name one lie and/or slander published
by moveon.org.


Name one fact or truth published by them.

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We have a cure for the energy problem. NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS! But
the enviro's got the building of same, outlawed.

No knee-jerk reactions, OK? Forget Yucca Mountain.

As it stands now, we are unable to control nuclear waste. I did not
say "dispose of". I said "CONTROL", meaning assure that is secured
against misuse. When we can do that, then MAYBE we can build nuclear
power plants the was Starbucks builds coffee shops.


Why worry about the control of the waste?

Step 1) Grab a Kleenex and wipe the drool off your chin.

Step 2) On the way home, buy the February issue of Scientific American.

Step 3) Read the article on managing unsecured nuclear materials.



Read the rest of the post you snipped!


I read it, and then snipped it to make the next message less cluttered.
The things you said are only distantly related to the worst threats
regarding nuclear materials. Go back to step 2 and buy the magazine.
You'll probably be interested and surprised, as I was. I'd post the text,
but I don't subscribe to the digital version, which is $39.


Yucca mt can be protected. but there is so much nuclear material out there
in bombs, etc and rogue states with nuclear reactors, the worry is more when
do the nut cases get it, the do they get the material.

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In article , jherring1
@yahoo.com says...

As the former owner of an MGB-GT, I can state that everyone of those are
true.

Thanks, jps!

'59 MGA, '70 BGT, '73 Midget, '69 Austin America (whew, was that a
stinker!).

There's nothing like English electrics...

jps

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In article ,
says...

It is concours, by the way, as in concours d'elegance.

Not concourse.

That's beyond my class of French. I probably can't even spell foie
gras.

jps

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In article . net,
says...

I don't know why anyone would purchase their car after the lease is up.
In some states you will pay sales tax twice. I have had very good
offers to keep cars, but not good enough to move to the next, new car.

My 2002 Audi has about 20K miles on it and in near perfect condition. I
could probably net a couple grand on it if I bought it and resold it.

jps

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"jps" wrote in message
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In article . net,
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I don't know why anyone would purchase their car after the lease is up.
In some states you will pay sales tax twice. I have had very good
offers to keep cars, but not good enough to move to the next, new car.

My 2002 Audi has about 20K miles on it and in near perfect condition. I
could probably net a couple grand on it if I bought it and resold it.

How long was your lease on it?