<VV> Re: Gaz

[Padgett]

>But if you're talking about 5 bucks/gallon for *gasoline*, it's NOT
>cheap energy.    It would be damned expensive energy.

Well $3/gallon was not enough to get people out of their blimpmobiles (part 
of the reason I moved from the Fiero to the Reatta was that too many people 
in Navigators and such just did not see me in the next lane because my roof 
was lower than their window sill). Personally have always been a firm 
believer that as frontal area goes up, mpg goes down (though the dustbuster 
nose on our 92 3800 TranSport is really pretty efficient - 24-25 mpg on the 
Interstate with the air on. Under 2000 rpm at 70 helps also).

Right now regular around here is under $2.25/gal and no-one seems to care 
but then "pay at the pump" divorces many form what they are actually 
spending & only the bill payer in the family sees what is going on.

Years ago when I first saw a one pound coin I though that it was going to 
devalue the "perception" of value (and am glad the $1 coin never caught on 
here). Suspect the plastic society is doing the same thing.

Padgett