---- John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
>   Has anyone thought about what this is going to do to the US in terms
> of affecting the economic recovery, cost of  manufactured goods, I-pad,
> iphones, plus other electronic gadgetry we use on or with our vans.
> Laptops, etc.  What's going to happen to the price of used Suburu
> engines some of us plan to install one day? May be really good for
> Z-tec's. There's a lot of ways that Japan's disaster could impact us as
> Vanagon users.
>
> Any thoughts on this?

right now, folks in Japan are freezing in the dark, without shelter, food and water, while radioactive materials waft their way, or at least are quite likely to.  Whether I can get a subaru engine cheap, or that an American engine supplier may now do better is not on my mind.  mcneely