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Post by subdjoe on Dec 6, 2008 14:33:56 GMT -5
Light sweet crude is nudging #$40/bbl, experts predict $25 likely. I wonder if The Obama still has a hardon for windfall taxes on the oil industry.
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Post by Mink on Dec 7, 2008 4:34:06 GMT -5
There are many bike and bus riders we can thank for the lower gas prices. Bush is in hiding, otherwise I might think he had something to do with it.
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Post by barneyfife on Dec 8, 2008 13:00:00 GMT -5
Light sweet crude is nudging #$40/bbl, experts predict $25 likely. I wonder if The Obama still has a hardon for windfall taxes on the oil industry. He took that off the table already a couple of weeks ago, I will try to find a link but I remember reading it. |
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Post by subdjoe on Dec 8, 2008 14:30:53 GMT -5
Light sweet crude is nudging #$40/bbl, experts predict $25 likely. I wonder if The Obama still has a hardon for windfall taxes on the oil industry. He took that off the table already a couple of weeks ago, I will try to find a link but I remember reading it. Yeah, it looks like the only Change we can expect is that from what he promised to what he actually meant to deliver. |
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Post by The Big Dog on Dec 8, 2008 15:32:25 GMT -5
There are many bike and bus riders we can thank for the lower gas prices. I temporarily break my self imposed silence to all things Mink this one time to note that the above is so laughably naive and utterly without logical thought that I zooted coffee on my monitor. |
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Post by barneyfife on Dec 8, 2008 19:38:36 GMT -5
There are many bike and bus riders we can thank for the lower gas prices. Bush is in hiding, otherwise I might think he had something to do with it. Can you Pretty Please link me to some statistics showing an ENORMOUS leap in bus ridership, or bicycle ridership in the last 2 months. If not I will HAVE TO take your statement as PURE RUBBISH made up in your little fantasy land, which would put your credibility here at 0. |
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Post by Mink on Dec 8, 2008 20:50:12 GMT -5
There are many bike and bus riders we can thank for the lower gas prices. I temporarily break my self imposed silence to all things Mink this one time to note that the above is so laughably naive and utterly without logical thought that I zooted coffee on my monitor. I'm glad you had a good laugh Big Dog. "tis the season to be jolly!!! BTW, I forgot to mention all the drivers who cut down on driving, planned local trips around town or maybe cancelled vacations to save as well.  |
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Post by Mink on Dec 8, 2008 20:52:53 GMT -5
There are many bike and bus riders we can thank for the lower gas prices. Bush is in hiding, otherwise I might think he had something to do with it. Can you Pretty Please link me to some statistics showing an ENORMOUS leap in bus ridership, or bicycle ridership in the last 2 months. If not I will HAVE TO take your statement as PURE RUBBISH made up in your little fantasy land, which would put your credibility here at 0. Hello barneyfife, welcome to the forum. I hope you don't feel offended if I don't respond to you as I see your caps are yelling at me. Your re-wording of my statement is pure rubbish. |
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Post by subdjoe on Dec 8, 2008 21:16:39 GMT -5
Mink, you should know that single word in caps does not indicate yelling. It is a convention to put emphasis on those words, kind of like how you will stress a certain word in spoken conversation to make a point. If you are using quick reply, as I am now, there isn't any other choice.
Now, care to produce the proof to back up your claims?
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Post by Mink on Dec 8, 2008 22:27:55 GMT -5
Subdjoe, I know I have been gone awhile, but I refuse to come back only to be treated with such disrespect by our new member.
The combination of caps and twisting my statement is rubbish. I'm shocked that you encourage this behavior.
It has been in the local papers throughout this high cost of gas outrage.
There was a story in the front page a few months back about a Republican who owned a fancy sports car, but he was shown on the front page using either his bike or motorcycle to save gas.
Just in the PD alone, there have been many stories on this same topic of people using the bus or riding bikes to and from work, planning local trips, commuting ...etc.
There are many links about this and because gas has been high for so long, the links go back to 2005.
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Post by subdjoe on Dec 8, 2008 23:58:52 GMT -5
I guess I'm dense. For the caps, that is a fairly standard convention for stressing single words. I do it from time to time. As for twisting your words, was it his use of the word 'enormous'? If so, I can't see it as twisting. More like his commentary that it would take a HUGE leap in use of bikes and mass transit to cause the supply/demand balance to be thrown off enough to cause the significant drop in prices.
I'm truely puzzled by your reaction.
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Post by barneyfife on Dec 9, 2008 18:09:12 GMT -5
Thank you Subjoe, Mink as you may or may not have noticed in the janky forum here if you use quick reply..there are no (bold type) or any other options. I am sure Mink knows this full well and was just being difficult.
I was merely pointing to the fact that it would take an enormous leap in both bicycle commuters and also bus ridership. To create the enormous price change in gas we have seen in just a two month span. In fact I can guarantee you, you couldn't find data supporting your claim (outside the odd story on a person who changed their routine), since the price change came about so rapidly..the data couldn't even be processed yet by Mass transit organizations nor bike rider study groups.
Furthermore your elitist attempt to dodge my question as "yelling", is comical when I imagine you knew full well what I meant. If you didn't well then LOL this is going to be one funny place to post. If you didn't maybe some web literacy classes are in order?
I have read your previous attempts at making a rational argument here, and you are far from the elitist saint you'd like paint yourself now.
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