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226 [lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers -- rank: 166

... s (former) rock-bottom interest rate policy. >And wouldn't SUV pricing be a pretty major example of corporate price >gouging ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 6 11:47:20 PDT 2005

227 [lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers -- rank: 166

... have to look like the 1970s, right? And wouldn't SUV pricing be a pretty major example of corporate price gouging ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Wed Apr 6 11:32:52 PDT 2005

228 [lbo-talk] For Carl R. & Wojtek -- rank: 166

... yelling obscenities out car windows while blasting their horns, one SUV taking up two parking spaces, a HUMMER with a 'Kick ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon Apr 4 10:25:10 PDT 2005

229 [lbo-talk] 'Burbs as health hazard -- rank: 166

... walking or >bicycling can be very dangerous, especially that some SUV-driving assholes >try to intimidate bikers and pedestrians by driving ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue Sep 28 16:25:25 PDT 2004

230 [lbo-talk] 'Burbs as health hazard -- rank: 166

... walking or bicycling can be very dangerous, especially that some SUV-driving assholes try to intimidate bikers and pedestrians by driving ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Sep 28 10:02:53 PDT 2004

231 [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians -- rank: 166

"Is there anyone who seriously believes that the selfishness of a few dozen million USers is the root cause of the environmental damage of Modern Society!?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Absolutely! They aren't raping the planet *just* for fun, there's profit to be made... from those "dozen million USers". (It's billions ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sat Sep 25 09:27:22 PDT 2004

232 [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians -- rank: 166

... creating a crisis environmentally so that everyone >>can have an SUV is progressive? >> >> > >Is there anyone who seriously believes that the ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Fri Sep 24 19:53:42 PDT 2004

233 [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians -- rank: 166

... creating a crisis environmentally so that everyone > can have an SUV is progressive? Is there anyone who seriously believes that the ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Fri Sep 24 19:11:26 PDT 2004

234 [lbo-talk] anti-suburban snobs, was Petro-thusians... -- rank: 166

>How superior we all are to those loathsome suburbanites! >They cower in their picket-fence redoubts, festering with race prejudice. >We are at ease in the inner city, they dread being 'mugged'. >They consume vast resources with their SUVs and one-car commuting. >We step nimbly from urban pad to ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Fri Sep 24 11:35:48 PDT 2004

235 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 166

Fs: > foreigners and ignorant people might believe that, but most others know > that public transit doesn't even exist for millions of americans, and > when it does, it costs so much and takes so much longer to get anywhere > that it might as well not exist, except for affluent people who ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Sep 24 07:54:27 PDT 2004

236 [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment -- rank: 166

>But it is unworthy to criticise not on >the basis of science, but of motivation. People with 'bad' motives and >unpleasant ideas are not thereby wrong (it was Nazi scientists who made >the link between smoking and cancer - their findings were rejected!). >If that makes me a fool, so be ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Wed Sep 22 10:58:59 PDT 2004

237 [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment -- rank: 166

Doug: > I'm willing to do a Simon-Eherlich style bet on it - I bet that at no > time in the next 10 years will oil trade over 5.25 times the average > U.S. hourly wage (which is where it was at its 1980 peak). That would > be around $82 ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Sep 22 07:13:34 PDT 2004

238 [lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 166

Commodity fetishism must be one of the top 3 most over-rated and misused Marxist concepts. The coiner of the phrase used it only to point out that you need to look behind the act of exchange to know how this kind of society works. In the past 50 years, however ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Sat Sep 18 20:55:31 PDT 2004

239 [lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 166

... can see how collecting Jordan sneakers or buying ever bigger SUV's is commodity fetishism, but I cannot flog someone without ...

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Author:	Brian Charles Dauth
Date:	Sat Sep 18 16:03:13 PDT 2004

240 [lbo-talk] New CBS Poll: Bad News For Kerry -- rank: 166

... tough-talking Bush will protects them, just like tough looking SUV >will "protect" them from car crash injuries or death. They ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 9 13:14:16 PDT 2004