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| My Next Commuter Car | 04 Jun 2008 16:26 GMT | 4 |
The MFFYs will all turn tail and run from this tank!!! http://tampa.craigslist.org/car/698033972.html
 Signature "Dave's not here, man!"
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| Sloth Kills Throughput Again | 04 Jun 2008 04:53 GMT | 1 |
Not just a Sloth, but an oblivious MFFY Sloth who almost failed to yield. He came puttering out of a side street and started to pull out in front of me, forcing me to slow just in case. At the last moment he did yield, but by then the damage was done; I missed the green light
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| Are there any car radios that still have real knobs and sliders? | 04 Jun 2008 04:21 GMT | 2 |
My wife and I recently found ourselves looking at that gift from the future (our future tax dollars) - the government stimulus check. We decided to use part of it to upgrade our car stereo receiver. Currently, our car stereo supports only cassette tape playback.
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| Big Oil Drills New Field | 04 Jun 2008 03:42 GMT | 2 |
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&sid=ayj1uo_gdNI4 Just disproves the theory that big oil doesn't want new sources of crude - they're drilling the F out of the Bakkan formation in N. Dakota. There's a lot more that they would drill, in other places like ANWR and
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| Car crashes into bike race; one dead | 03 Jun 2008 23:10 GMT | 1 |
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/06/02/mexico.bikers.ap/index.html Maybe he really didn't like it when bicyclists take the lane. It's really annoying when drivers push their way around a biker at an intersection, only to stop in front of the biker and refuse to move when
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| Running on empty: With less in tank, more get stranded | 03 Jun 2008 19:49 GMT | 13 |
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/06/02/stranded.motorists.ap/index.html
> Brent Saba had just dropped a church group off at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday morning and was heading north on Interstate 95 when it happened: His 15-passenger van ran out of gas. > > Saba, a ... |
| And a few billion more barrels.... | 03 Jun 2008 14:50 GMT | 2 |
The world is awash in oil.... today's oil... a trivial 4 billion barrels in Montana... http://www.nypost.com/seven/05292008/business/montana_governor_is_sitting_on_an_ oil_mi_113005.htm But the money quote is:
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| UK Gas Stations Flatten Tires of "Drive-away" Gas Thieves | 03 Jun 2008 09:31 GMT | 23 |
http://tinyurl.com/4ml2lz Garages use 'stingers' to combat petrol theft By Lucy Cockcroft Last Updated: 12:58AM BST 22/05/2008
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| Day of super sloth... | 03 Jun 2008 05:56 GMT | 5 |
Way home... sloth #1, a ~72 ford pickup from Arkansas with antique car plates doing 40 in a 50 on the cell phone. Driver in front of him was slothly but not as much. Sloth #2 in a full size van.... this guy accelerated slower than I do
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| Operation Coordinates: 13.25% | 03 Jun 2008 01:14 GMT | 2 |
Hi Viatologists, As of 2-Jun-2008, the Worldwide Transportation Library provides geographic coordinates for 13.25% of its 2,203 road photographs. Through retroactive action, the 'Operation Coordinates' program will increase the per centage of
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| Penny Wise, Pound Foolish | 03 Jun 2008 00:59 GMT | 5 |
Seems some drivers are putting less gas into their tanks due to the high prices. The problem is some of them end up running out of gas. And, of course, when you let your gas tank run completely dry, in the last few minutes you suck all the crud from the very bottom of your
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| New video - US25/84/301 - Ludowici, GA | 02 Jun 2008 22:37 GMT | 3 |
The latest necromancer Flims presentation is loaded and ready for your perusal. This is of the multiplex of US301, US25 and US84 in Long County, GA and passing through its infamous County Seat, Ludowici; which gained fame in the '60's as one of the worst traffic traps in
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| Eight Reasons Higher Gas Prices Will Do Us a World of Good | 02 Jun 2008 18:54 GMT | 4 |
Click the link for the full article. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/eight-reasons-youll-rejoice-we/story.aspx? guid=%7B82FCE1B0%2D1889%2D43B0%2DA465%2DE29BFEE95576%7D By Chris Pummer SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- For one of the nastiest substances on
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| Immigration=Population Growth=Energy Consumption | 02 Jun 2008 17:44 GMT | 9 |
One million legal immigrants arriving in America per year, perhaps that many again illegally. Aside from fuel, the cost in health care, law enforcement, social chaos, etc., is astounding. Only a very foolish people will let this population growth continue. Oh, I almost
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| An Extension of the Dash Concept | 02 Jun 2008 16:22 GMT | 5 |
Imagine if you had a box on your dashboard that not only relayed traffic conditions to other such boxes on other peoples' dashboards, but also relayed Smokey Reports? You could be driving along and suddenly the box would alert you to the fact that there is a cop on
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