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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (339200)	6/3/2007 1:18:04 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577031

What about the individual gas stations? Seems when they get on a roll they over react upwards ... Margins on gas stations stink.........most of them are hurting. Nope, the blame rests solely on the American public. There were oil shortages in the 1970s.......Americans were warned of the consequences. How did they respond? At first they built some small cars in the early 1980s that were actually bigger than the small cars of Europe and Japan. However, a few years later they went into the van in a big way and then invented the SUV which proceeded to get bigger as each year of the '90s went by. Helping the cause, the GOP congress did every thing it could to keep EPA requirements low and from discouraging mass transit and the development of a decent train system. Meanwhile, aside from the fact that the quality of their cars and their designs stunk, GM, Ford and Chrysler were not building cars that the world wanted; just what Americans wanted. Hence, they have become also-ran car companies. This country is so frigging arrogant it doesn't think the natural rules of the universe apply to it. And that's how we got Bush!