From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #178 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Saturday, September 3 2005 Volume 10 : Number 178 Today's Subjects: ----------------- FW: Sunday Gas Boycott ["Steve O'Hearn" ] Re: Sunday Gas Boycott [suprdave@aol.com] Re: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott [JPovlock@aol.com] Re: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott [j w ] Re: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott ["Mike Nice" ] Re: Europe ["Leslie O." ] I Did It Again! [PParm16424@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:55:11 -0400 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott ********************************** * * * SUNDAY GAS BOYCOTT * * * ********************************** * * * * ALERT * ALERT* ALERT * * * * * STOP BUYING GAS ON SUNDAYS!! * * * * - Wake up the gas companies * * - Protest the price gouging * * - Save your money * * - Show your unity * * - Spend time with your family * * - It's a day of rest anyway * * * * SAVE MONEY NOW! * * SAVE MONEY IN THE FUTURE * * WHEN THE GAS COMPANIES * * GET THE MESSAGE AND DROP * * PRICES BACK DOWN !!!!!!! * * * ********************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:17:36 -0400 From: suprdave@aol.com Subject: Re: Sunday Gas Boycott Idiot! Does anything even care to apply some critical thinking here? Let me do it for you. 1. It will never work unless you could get 90% compliance which is impossible. 2. The oil companies have much larger resources, so they can stand to wait one day until you come back. 3. What's the point of staying away for one day, and then going back on monday to gas up? 4. The oil companies know you will be coming back, so they could care less. 5. Would you be willing to boycott for weeks or months until you got a real result? Of course you would not! I always have to LART someone who posts crap like this. It's a ISP TOS violation anyway. - -----Original Message----- From: Steve O'Hearn To: Steve O'Hearn Sent: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:55:11 -0400 Subject: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott ********************************** * * * SUNDAY GAS BOYCOTT * * * ********************************** * * * * ALERT * ALERT* ALERT * * * * * STOP BUYING GAS ON SUNDAYS!! * * * * - Wake up the gas companies * * - Protest the price gouging * * - Save your money * * - Show your unity * * - Spend time with your family * * - It's a day of rest anyway * * * * SAVE MONEY NOW! * * SAVE MONEY IN THE FUTURE * * WHEN THE GAS COMPANIES * * GET THE MESSAGE AND DROP * * PRICES BACK DOWN !!!!!!! * * * ********************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:24:23 EDT From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: Re: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott They have the supply, and you have a demand. Please read your Economics 101 book from high school. Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:05:44 -0700 (PDT) From: j w Subject: Re: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott (Sorry for the long rant, feel free to stop now and delete) I find it a troubling symptom of my nation's critical thinking and philosophy that people not only believe that boycotting gas for a day would actually work, but that virtually no one is publically advocating the only sorts of sacrifices that would have an impact, namely consuming less gasoline over a long period of time. Walk or bike when you can. Use mass transit if you can. If you must drive, carpool if possible. Causing demand to dip for one day and then skyrocket the next obviously will have no meaningful effect on the market. Showing over the long haul that you are tired of taking this crap and you will actually do something about it will. And thank goodness that our nation's energy needs are still wound tightly around the finger of an unstable region that actively supports terrorists who have and will continue to attack us. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:53:51 -0400 From: "Mike Nice" Subject: Re: FW: Sunday Gas Boycott >. Walk or bike when you can. Use mass transit if > you can. If you must drive, carpool if possible. These are very difficult to do in most US locations. They're bike unfriendly - autos have all priority and you take your life into your hands to ride a biker. Most cities are too spread out to walk. Having recently started a 1-year assignment in Zurich, I can experience the other side of things in the transportation hub of Europe. They have one of the best (if not the best) mass transit systems in the world. Everything is well maintained and runs exactly on time. So much so that I have prepaid my transportation costs for a year and don't expect to rent a car very often. To avoid straying too far from the topic, I was also disappointed to find that Matt Bianco wouldn't be doing a summer or fall tour of Europe! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:14:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: Europe > To avoid straying too far from the topic, I was > also disappointed to find > that Matt Bianco wouldn't be doing a summer or fall > tour of Europe! Yeah. *sigh* and they really wanted to, is the thing! I hate numbers. - -- Leslie O. "Just when you expect jaunty jazz-coated melodies, 'Cruising For Bruising' kicks Side One off balance with a thunderous slab of mean-mutha rap metal spat from the very bowels of Hell itself." NME review of London Warsaw New York, 2/24/90 ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:42:31 EDT From: PParm16424@aol.com Subject: I Did It Again! About a week ago, I put my Time & Tide cassette in my walkman and set out for a long bike ride. I was dismayed when I started listening to a sick sounding Basia. The batteries were still good, so unfortunately it meant the tape had gone bad. (So I just listened to the radio throughout the ride.) A few days later, I went through a couple of Goodwill type stores, and found nothing I wanted EXCEPT a copy of Time & Tide on CD!! Woo-hoo! Just in the nick of time! :) Phil P. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #178 ****************************