[ale] OT: gas going up this weekend

[Tom Freeman]

I'd like to get the Linux stuff working better for me before adding any 
new challenges 8-/

My (state run) employer has just switched to MS Exchange (state mandate 
- wish I didn't think money was involved 'cause stupid explains the 
change just as well) and so far I find the results just plain ugly. 
Maybe the web interface will at least wear well...and improve with 
experience...

All of the above contributes to topic drift. sorry, but I'm annoyed.

On 04/28/2011 09:01 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Have you considered giving up Linux for economics? The only parts 
> missing are the costs of making cars and their infrastructure that are 
> not cleaned up to restore the location back to pristine.
> OK. So the car will go back to rust at no cost.  :-)
>
> On Apr 28, 2011 8:29 AM, "Tom Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net 
> <mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>> wrote:
> > I find this amusing, in a rather sour sort of way. Has anybody else
> > noticed how the cost of fuel really controls the perception of the 
> cost of
> > driving, yet is _actually_ a relatively minor cost? That is, the 
> cost of
> > gas goes up and everybody panics about their expenses, but they don't
> > blink much at the insurance, regular maintanence, capital costs, 
> parking
> > costs (which are usually hidden somewhere), and so forth?
> >
> > At 30mpg my cost per mile is approaching (if I did it right, need more
> > coffee) $0.10/mile. Or very similar to the capital cost of just 
> purchasing
> > the vehicle (I got 260,000miles from the last one). Insurance costs 
> were
> > pretty close last time I checked my own statements, but YMWV by a
> > significant amount. If you work/shop in a center city environment, you
> > might get to pay for the parking. Otherwise, somebody else gets to 
> pick up
> > the tab to maintain the lot and the access ways.
> >
> > Add to these "hidden" costs the tax burden on the country for a 
> portion of
> > the miltary adventurism needed to protect the fuel sources for the 
> world,
> > the lack of maintanence that many locals have invensted in their 
> roadways
> > which becomes a direct cost to you for fixing wear on the vehicle 
> and an
> > eventual tax cost if the repairs are ever to be done, and it becomes a
> > tidy wad of money.
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Michael Potter wrote:
> >
> >>>> On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 09:53:21 am Tim Watts wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> 3-5 cents/gallon I can deal with. And at least I know it's 
> coming. It's
> >>>>
> >>>>> the random/inexplicable 25-45 cent/gallon hikes that grab me by the
> >>>>
> >>>>> shorts.
> >>
> >>
> >> $0.04/gal * 15 gal = $0.60.