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To: Keith Feral who wrote (169407)	8/19/2005 4:45:55 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Of course the Expedition is a status symbol. The more bells, whistles and gadgets on it the better. Are you kidding about soccer moms? I said Minivans and even the old station wagon are safer than those truck SUV gas guzzlers. They have car requirements plus SUVs make it more dangerous for regular-sized cars on the road. SUVs are also more expensive to repair. They don't make any sense for the vast majority of their owners. One or two people with a couple of bags of groceries and even a big dog do fit in a Camry. The outlook for oil has to do with the US of A NOT doing anything about gas standards, about the lack of new deposits, about a few billion people overtaking us on the economic track, about lack of investment in new technology and the relative cheapness of oil fostering the growth of ever more spread out bedroom communities. It's not one thing, it's many things and none of them appear to be going away. We can't control China, we can't control India but we can control our dependence on fossil fuels. I'm not negative, I'm rational. I think $6 gal/gas can spur entrepreneurial zeal in alternative lifestyles. I think more people can work from their bedroom communities by telecommuting . I think these are GOOD things as they help families with children actually be at home with those children. There are people commuting half a day every day just so they can keep a job in the city and have a suburban house. It's silly. What new major oil finds have there been in the last three decades? How much of the Saudi reserves are real and how much is irreparably damaged or fictitious? Ditto those of all other countries. Look how quickly the US came and went from have lots of oil to having to worry about it. The oil economy is about 100 years old and we're already worried that we've seen its peak. UH OH Of course Bush being an oil man has much to do with what ails us. We're fighting a war FOR OIL. If you think we're in Iraq for anything more important than oil then you aren't thinking. What if $350-$400 BILLION were poured into capital investments into alternative energy and conservation instead of wasted in Iraq? What if? What if Bush were a tree-hugging alternative energy dude instead of a cough-cough fossil fuel guy? What if? The biggest, heaviest of the SUVs still get government subsidies while hybrid subsidies peter out and then go out completely. Why? Gas guzzling, incredibly inefficient legacy airlines are getting government bailouts. Why? What if those monies were put into telecommuting and teleconferencing to get people to knock off traveling on a cheap ticket and a whim? What if?