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Article #1833Re: Daily gripe: all the traffic is in the left lane
From: Chuck
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:00
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Vince Young wrote: > > > > > I agree with you totally about public transport Brian, but I'd not agree > that gas costs too much. Try driving in England... gas costs about 3 > times the cost in the US. > > Maybe if the price of gas was increased people wouldn't go out and buy > those 4 by 4 s which have big ebgines. You don't need a car with a 4 > litre engine, it's wasteful. My father in England has never had a car > over 2 litres and he still can go flying round the motorways at 90 mph > quite happily. > > I looked at the fuel efficiency rating of a Jeep Grand Cherokee once, 14 > mpg in the city and about 18 on the open road, this is dreadful. We had > a VW that did 36 mpg. Costs a lot less in gas and is far more efficient. > > Vince Yes, but which would you rather travel 600 miles in a day, with 4 other people in the vehicle? There is a huge difference between the driving styles on England (a tiny island) and the USA. Some of us kind of like that open road, long distance ride. -- Chuck..... "SPAMMERS must be rooted out and killed" Spam Safeguard: To reply to this message, e-mail to: Chuck.K@ix.netcom.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10001a,581725c8aaee3c36 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,eb419c88c79ae9ef X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,581725c8aaee3c36 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public From: Chuck <Chuck.K@Spamers.mustdie.com> Subject: Re: Daily gripe: all the traffic is in the left lane Date: 1997/04/16 Message-ID: <3355AF31.23A5@Spamers.mustdie.com> X-Deja-AN: 235378516 References: <3331d07c.1023431720@news.pipeline.com> <333b959a.11450524@snew <charles.day-0304970912480001@cday.gsfc.nasa.gov> <5i1d6p$1ge@newstoo.worldbank.org> <5ih6v8$q69@samba.rahul.net> <5ipq0l$4ed@boursy.news.erols.com> <3352a1bf.442657087@butch> <33531049.1140@SPAMBLOCK.wmin.ac.uk> <335467A9.6D05@ix.netcom.com> <33558C62.46E7@SPAMBLOCK.wmin.ac.uk> Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Apr 16 10:05:40 PM PDT 1997 Reply-To: Chuck.K@see.below.com Newsgroups: dc.driving,ca.driving,rec.autos.driving