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Ad absurdum per aspera - 29 Jan 2007 15:22 GMT

Excerpted from a new or upcoming book, _Oil on the Brain: Adventures
from the Pump to the Pipeline_ by Lisa Margonelli, this article gives
an interesting look behind the scenes at a (small, and these days,
perhaps anomalous) urban gas station:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/28/
CMGR8ND0EB1.DTL&hw=gas&sn=001&sc=1000

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Steve B - 29 Jan 2007 17:04 GMT

> Excerpted from a new or upcoming book, _Oil on the Brain: Adventures
> from the Pump to the Pipeline_ by Lisa Margonelli, this article gives
> an interesting look behind the scenes at a (small, and these days,
> perhaps anomalous) urban gas station:
> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/28/
> CMGR8ND0EB1.DTL&hw=gas&sn=001&sc=1000

Jeezus Christ! You go there, and it's a maze of advs and links to other
sites selling insurance to nuts. When you post a link, please make it to
THAT article. I'm not gonna waste time wading through all that bullshit.
This qualifies as a spam post.

Sheesh.

Steve

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Ad absurdum per aspera - 29 Jan 2007 18:47 GMT

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/28/
CMGR8ND0EB1.DTL&hw=gas&sn=001&sc=1000

> When you post a link, please make it to THAT article.

Well, when I pasted it, that's what it was, but the newer, shinier
Google Groups seems prone to sins of both commission and omission when
it comes to line wrapping. Assemble the two halves of the
abovementioned URL by hand instead of clicking on the link and you
should be spared the newspaper's "We couldn't figure out what you were
after so here are navigation links and some blinking ads" page.

>THAT qualifies as a spam post

Well, those things do happen, but I have no vested interest in the
book, the Chronicle, or its advertisers...

Cheers,
--Joe

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necromancer - 29 Jan 2007 19:23 GMT

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Ad absurdum per
aspera said in rec.autos.driving:

> Well, when I pasted it, that's what it was, but the newer, shinier
> Google Groups seems prone to sins of both commission and omission when
> it comes to line wrapping. Assemble the two halves of the
> abovementioned URL by hand instead of clicking on the link and you
> should be spared the newspaper's "We couldn't figure out what you were
> after so here are navigation links and some blinking ads" page.

tinyurl.com is your friend. Why are you ignoring your friend? ;)

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