[WWI] Fighting Camels

[Rusty Scott]

 Yea, nice comment on the gas issue in the US...........Thanks for that ! My 
wife drives a 96 Toyota Tercel. Gets 42 MPG. She drives 91 miles a day for 
her commute to work. She had to park the minivan. Gas is 4.02 in my town for 
the cheap stuff. I think you can do the math.... Thanks again for the salt 
in the open wound on gas prices which have risen at a rate out of sync with 
anyone's annual pay increase. Same comments I used to get from my 
counterparts at Suzuki in Hamumatsu Japan until they came here and have to 
drive anywhere, then I laughed at them. A Japanese 660 class car wont even 
go up a hill in NH ! People travel long distances for work and recreation in 
the US. Its painful, thanks again............

Rusty



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Stewart" <rob at rob-stewart.to>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Fighting Camels


> Hi,
>
>> PS  Stop whingeing about the price of gas in the US. If only we could be 
>> so fortunate. In the UK its over 5 GBP or 10 dollars a gallon
>
> But you guys don't have so far to go to get anywhere ;)
>
> A round trip drive to the US nats would be 4742 miles for me, for example. 
> That would be about 600GBP in gas alone.
>
> How much would your trip to the UK nats cost?
>
> My local IPMS chapter is 32 miles away, again a round trip gas cost of 
> 6GBP.
>
>
> I don't think its the price, per se that is the main reason for the 
> whinging, it's the fact that it is rising so rapidly (and salaries not 
> following!) and that the oil companies are reaping record profits.
>
> UK gas has always been more expensive, even during the boom North Sea 
> days, because successive governments saw the tax revenue as a cash cow, 
> and the UK electorate kept electing them.
>
> -- 
> Rob Stewart
> icbm: 33.86°N, 112.10°W
>
>