From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 07:25:32 PDT
At 2:10 PM +0000 4/8/05, david gudmunsen wrote:
> >From the UK
>The subject of tax policies and fuel costs is far too big and convoluted to
>discuss in any depth here. Suffice it to say that it sure discourages the
>preservation and running of old military vehicles.
True enough, but it impacts our hobbies.
>On the news today it was announced that fuel here has reached an average
>pump price of $8.19 per US gallon. Rebated fuel costs roughly $3.30 and is
>available for agricultural and off highway use, also for plant and
>generating useage, plus boats and airplanes (I think our trains use rebated
>fuel too). Road trucks and buses use unrebated fuel. The repercussions are
>extensive to say the least and most guys in the US have no idea how
>economically hard pressed many of us are in the UK.
As someone said however, getting from one small part of North America to another takes a bloody long time. It's 13 hours from Atlanta to DC at 60 mph. Its about the same from Atlanta to Miami and that's just down to the next state. New England is sneaky because there's a lot of small states. Go out west and you're looking at driving for hours just to get out of the same county. They build the land big out there.
>Our housing (not so much because of fuel cost) at an average price of
>$312000 for small 3 bed semi and food costs are dramatically high as are any
>other items needing to be moved around the country and most are.
I would point out that the high fuel costs severely impact all those things because you're reliant on heavy over the road transport for moving building materials and food to the distribution and final end points. This is the thing that has really soured me to the idea of increased fuel taxes.
>Domestic electricity is about ¢10 per kWh and much of our generating is from
>modern gas fired sets where the gas is from local (North Sea) sources.
Nuclear is the answer to this you know. But the Greenies won't allow it. Pebble Bed reactors are a very good system and they can't go super critical, their very nature and arrangement prevents this.
>Best regards from David Gudmunsen
>
>PS you can imagine how most of us feel when we hear north Americans
>complaining about prices.
The short response is then take all those laggards off the dole. Stop allowing the local council to distribute houses. Council Tarts distributing houses is not the basis of a good economic system. ;-)
-- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Center Operations Group - - http://web.turner.com/data_center/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Ryan Montieth Gill One CNN Center SE0813 E - - Internet Technologies -- Data Center Operations Manager - - Hours 11am - 7pm Mon - Fri (8Sdc, 10Sdc IT@3Ndc) - - Cellular: 404-545-6205 e-mail: Ryan.Gill@cnn.com - - Office: 404-588-6191 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Emergency Power-off != Door release! - ----------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat May 07 2005 - 20:42:53 PDT