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Originally posted by LessinSF
I need to clean up some old business.

Remember when I said gas
"should be $5.00 or more a gallon. Keep raising the taxes until this country is broken of its dependence on the Arabs. We will know the price is high enough when Hummer goes out of business."

and Sebby replied:

"Dissent, brother. I still don’t pay much attention to gas prices. I’ve just taken to running all my gas bills through the wife’s business. And if I couldn’t do that? I still wouldn’t get all pissed about it. I mean, really... gas is like water. What am I going to do? Go out and buy a Prius? Try driving that in the Winter up here. High gas prices are just one of those things I lament, along with death, wrinkles, having a job and paying taxes. In fact, gas is like taxes. You do everything you can to avoid paying, but when you have to pay, fuck it. Its just a cost of doing business, and there’s no use griping."

I would like to gloat and direct y'all to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...sn=001&sc=1000 . Excerpt:

"The sales spiral of the Ford Explorer demonstrates shifting public tastes. Once one of the nation's most popular vehicle of any type, Ford sold fewer than 12,000 Explorers last month, 52 percent less than in November 2004.

At the height of the SUV boom in 2002, Ford routinely sold 25,000 to 40,000 Explorers a month.

Ford is looking to offset the weakness in trucks with more sales of passenger cars, including the Ford Fusion and Lincoln Zephyr.

GM also felt the SUV crunch. In November, sales of the Chevrolet Suburban and Cadillac Escalade dropped 46 percent and 48 percent, respectively, from November 2004."

But can ABBA drive one to the gym naked in sub freezing weather?