[ale] OT: gas going up this weekend

[Tom Freeman]

I-20 is way too scary

period

forget the scooter - for I-20 I want something with armor...

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Jim Kinney wrote:

> The spike in 08 that was fueled (ha, ha) by the speculators which magically
> coincided with the beginning of the economic crash. The graph between then
> and now looks just like the graph before the 08 spike/crash.
> 
> I'm convinced that the 08 spike was also a test to see what people would
> actually put up with for fuel prices. When it hit $4.25/g MARTA got crowded!
> My luck I was driving 35 miles to work each way at the time. I20 was WAY too
> scary for a scooter that got 65MPG.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>       Folks, go here and select 6 year and the timeframe between the
>       2008/2009
>       low and now is what has caught my attention.
>
>       http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
> 
>
>       Until later, Geoffrey
>
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