>>>So Bush wants to nuke Iran now huh?
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>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=C3HY5I431EHHRQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/09/wbush09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/09/ixportaltop.html
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>>>Hey if he can't get gas to $5.00 a gallon by the end of his term at least he can start World War 3.
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>>Gas is up around $2.70/gallon here already and it's barely April. The oil companies are gouging SOBs and we just view them as part of the environment.
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>>All right, I'll stop complaining. Complaining without trying to make things better is useless. There are some pretty smart people here. What can we constructively do to better the auto fuel situation? I suggest for starters we all make a pledge not to buy any vehicle that doesn't get at least 25 mpg. Trust me, I have owned gas hogs myself and my life is no worse without them.
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>My son and I just bought new Pontiac Vibe's - 36 mpg. My wife has a new Buick - 30 MPG.
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>My first car was a 1953 Olds - 6 mpg in the city.


6 mpg! I had no idea cars ever guzzled gas at that rate.

Then again, gas cost, what, 20 or 30 cents a gallon then? I remember gas prices around 30 cents in the early 1970s, before the energy crisis.