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Subject:Re: gas prices..
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:37:03 +1300

>Gas is way to cheap.  AS long as Chevy still sells the big
>vehicles, it will remain cheap at any price.  As for Vanagons
>this is one reason I stayed with a small displacement engine
>swap, 1.8L inline.   This is also why I have a Jetta.
>The higher the price the less the fat heads can aford.
>If your that brain dead to by a Chevy, thats the only way
>your going to learn.   The higher the price the better off
>we are.

Yes but...

If a vehicle has a too-small engine you have to wring its neck to try
to get it to move. Fitting a bigger engine can actually increase
econoym.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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