>

Funny, isn't it, how one day your position makes you a soldier-hating
liberal communist idiot, and the next day *poof* you're a visionary...
like the morons who predicted $3.00 gasoline this year. We'll be
wishing for 3.00 gasoline soon.

I'm driving my diesel around happily getting 27 mph. I imagine I won't
be so happy the first time I have to fill it back up. I had to put 70
miles on it today and I felt every mile as I watched the odometer click
over. Tomorrow I have to drive 200 miles in my gasser--that is going to
hurt, but I need the capacity as I am picking up a load of books. Then
next week I have to deliver those books to various places around the
state... hundreds of miles!

I work in a home office like the original poster, but that's not
helping me at all right now. You can't haul many books on a bicycle
either.

Jim

> here is an excellent set of articles explaining the
>
> vulnerabilites of the area [ written 3 years ago....:O(  ]
>
> It may possibly give a heads up to what to expect in the coming
> weeks... :O(
>
> http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/part1.html
>
> Tom
>
>
> From: David Bohannan <fjazzbass@GMAIL.COM>
> Reply-To: David Bohannan <fjazzbass@GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:40:05 -0400
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Subject: Re: Maybe now is the time to fill the tank of your extra car
> or
> "parts vanagon"
>
> Yeah I filled mine up the night before last and am not driving
> anywhere unnecessarily...I
> am fortunate to work from home...not sure how anyone that commutes
> could do
> this...trying to stay home...share rides...pick up stuff from the
> store for
> Mom when we go....almost like the way it should be normally...I like
> this
> exercise...
>
> Too bad it took a tragedy like this to force it upon us instead of
> making
> the conscious decision to save resources because its good
> stewardship...
>
> Dave
>