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From : electrician

Q: tbone wrote people are so fixated on the price of gas they will spend a fortune to save a few peanuts in comparison. as it should be. to you perhaps. maybe you have tons of extra cash around so you can save the world. i dont. i cant afford a new car. the savings in gas from it wont come close to paying for it. oh come on miles we all know that youre the one in here with the big bucks. i all seriousness though what you are saying sounds more like a justification for not wanting to make any sacrifices or changes in your lifestyle. we have had this discussion before miles and as usual you only look at one side of the problem. not so. i see both sides. short term issues as well as long term issues. while ou may see them you still only look to one side for answers. the side that doesnt require you to make any changes. you see only the long term and ignore whats happening now. actually i see both and what people are starting to do effects both the long and short term. the sad thing is miles is that conservation is the only real answer for both and the one you simply refuse to look at. drilling more wells alone does nothing but propagate the problem and will make us ecen more dependent on foreign oil when we run out of ours and the people are still the wasteful pigs that they currently are. we are dependent on foreign oil now and have serious problems now. and with our current usage and rate of grown in usage we always will be. even if all of alaska and everywhere else were to suddenly be opened up for drilling. it would take years for anything to come of it. sorry miles but drilling is neither a short or long term solution to the problem. concervation can be started today with results happening today. sounds pretty short term to me. and then if the demand for more fuel efficient cars continues the builders will have no choice but to work on improving the technology perhaps to the point of not really needing oil at all for fuel. that sounds like a solid long term solution to me. long term helps the future..great now what about the short term ignore those problems the only one ignoring them is you. our dependence is caused in a big way by our own hand and our continual waste of energy. everything most americans that can afford it have is way bigger than they need and if they want to continue this way it comes at a cost. just digging more well is truly ignorong the problem and trying to deal with the symptoms. the problem with doing that is the problem just gets worse. you have stated before you see nothing wrong with foreign dependency because in the long term when we get off oil entirely in wont be an issue. you gonna deny that no what i said was that it is better to use their oil first so when it becomes critical we are the ones that are in control because we still have some and not the other way around like you would have it. everyone is so damn sure that there is another technology to jump in when we begin to run out of oil and while i hate to burst your bubble it simply doesnt exist yet and possibly never will. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .

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From : trey

transurgeon wrote saying that 3 is 50% more than 2 is imprecise instead say that 3 is fifty percent larger than 2 and yes 3 % is 1 % more than 2 % more than indicates that all numbers in a statement are in the same units; subtraction in other words larger than indicates that a comparison has been made; usually by way of a ratio i can live with that. wholly shit we agree on something! or shoud that be we agree about something holy f*ing shit ! how about we agree amongst ourselves about something now...........................can you explain the concept to bonehead yawn... i understand the concept and never said that it was mathematically wrong. what i said was that it was fuzzy math theres nothing fuzzy about 3% / 2% = 150% .

From : tbone

tbone wrote p done usually indicates the end of the display codes so it appears that your vehicle can do it. iirc there was one year that could not. your best bet would be to wait for a check engine light to come on and try it again. it cant be done on my 99. not sure of other years. .

From : kevin cooper

this goes along with what i have been saying for years we either conserve it now or pay big for what is left of it later. i recently came across http//www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ id say its too believable to be true... but would love to hear any arguments against the theory... well the author of the website says conservation wont matter... any advances in conservation & efficiency will cause us to consume more and total oil usage will continue to rise. it also states that hybrid cars production is very oil- and energy- intensive and in fact offsets any savings made in decreased fuel consumption. what really bothers me is that theres simply no way our energy needs can be satisfied without oil... unless there is a breakthrough in nuclear fusion or something like that. peter .

From : trey

if 99 was the first year of the electronic odometer that is probably the year that i was thinking about. 98 was the first year for the digital odometer and it didnt work then either. .