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586 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 166

... the train instead of the plane of my gas guzzling SUV and be a bit easier on the environment." No, the ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Apr 6 05:58:10 PDT 2007

587 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 166

... a half > mile to the health club, I need an SUV to cart the kids around) that I > think it would ...

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Author:	Jean-Christophe Helary
Date:	Fri Apr 6 05:43:06 PDT 2007

588 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 166

... a half mile to the health club, I need an SUV to cart the kids around) that I think it would ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Fri Apr 6 05:30:10 PDT 2007

589 [lbo-talk] Americans Upbeat About Economy, Credit Bush -- rank: 166

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-poll22sep22,0,2607971.story?coll=la-home-headlines Americans have become more optimistic about the economy and they are giving President Bush some of the credit, a new Times/Bloomberg poll shows. Republicans running for election next month could benefit from the ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Thu Sep 21 17:40:19 PDT 2006

590 [lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters! -- rank: 166

Just to make things more complicated ... With cars, energy consumption is not just a matter of miles driven, but also manufacturing. Manufacturing, according to a Carnegie-Mellon study, accounts for 10 percent of energy consumed and more than half the toxic releases over a car's lifetime (http://www.ilea.org ...

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Author:	kevin island
Date:	Wed Sep 6 14:53:09 PDT 2006

591 [lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters! -- rank: 166

On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:29 PM, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > On Sep 6, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > > They were never on the hook anyhow. Isolated individuals have no > responsibility for utilizing whatever transportation is most useful > and > enjoyable for the isolated individual. > > > On 6 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 14:38:00 PDT 2006

592 [lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters! -- rank: 166

The idea that oil is renewable is junk science, like cold fusion. I can find a scientist who believes in CF and trot out his studies but it's still junk science. Why the oil as a renewable gets treated as legitimate science here is a mystery to me. Maybe a ...

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Author:	jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Date:	Wed Sep 6 12:59:09 PDT 2006

593 [lbo-talk] Who killed the electric car? -- rank: 166

John: I disagree that the EV1 cold be profitably sold for a "reasonable' price. The price I heard is that at less than $65,000 the EV1 was a money loser for GM. I got this number from an electrical engineer at Daimler-Chrysler. He has worked on an electric car ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Sep 6 08:00:29 PDT 2006

594 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 166

I find myself thinking alot about the disconnect between the American dream (both imaginary and the good and real stuff that's being dismantled) and socialism, because I live and organize in Nevada (previously Vegas, and now a small mining and sheepherding town in the rural northeast of the state). And ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Thu Oct 26 09:48:39 PDT 2006

595 [lbo-talk] Mexico: more symptoms of social decomposition -- rank: 166

I was born and (partially) raised in Morelia, Michoacán. Michoacán is the Mexican state with the more dollars of remittances per capita, one of the largest per capita emigration ratios. One out of every 5 Mexicans live abroad. And I estimate that one out of every 4 Michoacanos live abroad. The ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Sun Nov 19 13:41:14 PST 2006

596 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 166

... that this is > prevalent, not a defining characteristic. Not all SUV drivers are > anti-social and paranoid. Of course there are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 17:35:06 PST 2006

597 [lbo-talk] Re: My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 166

... leftists (particularly teh sectarian ones)? Jim I agree except for SUV drivers. Industry research proves they're > antisocial and paranoid people ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Thu Nov 2 08:02:58 PST 2006

598 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 166

... agree completely with this. But the same thing goes for SUV drivers, > homeowners, suburbanites, Bush voters, fundamentalists & evangelicals, > chain-restaurant customers ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Nov 2 06:50:29 PST 2006

599 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 166

... Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > I agree except for SUV drivers. Industry research proves they're > > antisocial and paranoid people ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Nov 1 18:30:48 PST 2006

600 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 166

... Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> I agree except for SUV drivers. Industry research proves they're >> antisocial and paranoid people ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 1 18:25:49 PST 2006