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In high school I had a friend named Craig whose dad owned a race car-- a stripped down, souped-up stock car, used for racing on dirt tracks such as the one we frequented in Belleville, IL. I used to go along with Craig and hang out in the pit with the crew members and ride along on the warm-up laps (and even drove the warm-up around the track

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[liminalia]

You said it

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As per usual, all my enviro-history professors back in the early 90s predicted these prices and advocated raising the gas tax to reflect "true cost," encourage conservation and R&D. Maybe at that point it would have been appropriate to spur things along. Now I feel like, too late, we can't spare the dollar.

Not only in the oil companies' pockets, but those of the auto industry, which is directly/indirectly responsible for a lot of the lackluster public transpo we have in this country.

I wonder how far the poor and marginal middle-class will have to be pushed before we start seeing some heavy reactions. Coxey's Army for the modern day?

Dunno exactly how old you are, but I remember the lines and gas rationing of the 70s, and wonder how long it will be before we are there again. I'm wondering whether I should buy a locking gas cap because I remember people stealing gas from parked cars and also raiding farms that had their own little tanks/pumps for the machinery.

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You MUST buy a locking gas cap. (they are quite cheap- less than a gallon of gas soon will be.) They're already out doing that in abundance, according to several of my neighbors who found themselves drained and on the side of the road.

The good thing I'm seeing about this is that maybe- just maybe- people will start to move back to the inner cities. I hope so.

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Thanks for the heads up!

[thebedespeaks]

never underestimate the ability of the average American voter to fall for a bribe.

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Landlady (aka Fat Landlady) from the movie Kung Fu Hustle. While I doubt I was the first person to make an icon from her image, enough people have flipped out over it that I imagine it's been yoinked a few times . . .

thanks for the add- added you back!

[wretchmuffin]

Hi; noticed you over at bifemmefatale's journal and wandered over here and am now adding you; hope that's okay.

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Added you back She-Hulk; thanks!