Joke on me

Demand for gas is very inelastic: large changes in P yield relatively
small changes in Q. The few people who switch to mass transit or
cycling are largely swamped by the people who don't want to give up
the convenience or the experience of driving.

Gas is too cheap right now to predict how elastic or inelastic gas will
be. In Europe, high gas prices have curtailed car trips. It will
here, albeit not at these dirt cheap prices. Given a choice of walking
to the store or spending $8/gal, what do you think will happen?

Yours In Christ,
John

Oh no? I've seen them go for alest $3,000 in 'good' shape, and I see at lest
10 of them around Rosamond and more in other towns, maybe not in the big
citys, but go out into the boondocks and you'll find them running around.


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Starlord wrote:
Was sitting out by the gathering table and a few of the other people
where
there too. I was offered a car to buy, only $300.00! Wow, figured it
couldn't be as bad as the one I'm running now, that was until I saw it.
It's
a blue Chevy El Camro(sp?) you know that pickup that's not a pickup, a
car
that's not a car...

Such vehicles never really caught on in North America,
though Ford (Ranchero) and Chevrolet (El Camino) both tried.

They are popular in other parts of the world, where they're
called "utes". Older readers may remember vehicles called
"sedan delivery". This is in very much the same space,
a light-duty commercial vehicle based on a passenger
car chassis.

I've always rather liked the Australian Ford Falcon Ute.
(http://www.ford.com.au/range/falconute/models/)
Utes are very popular in Australia, and there are
magazines devoted to them.

Cutest I've ever seen was a Mini-Minor pickup.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
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If you lived out here in the Desert where that 8 mile walk in daylight hours
would be 100F, you'd pay for the gas.


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Demand for gas is very inelastic: large changes in P yield relatively
small changes in Q. The few people who switch to mass transit or
cycling are largely swamped by the people who don't want to give up
the convenience or the experience of driving.

Gas is too cheap right now to predict how elastic or inelastic gas will
be. In Europe, high gas prices have curtailed car trips. It will
here, albeit not at these dirt cheap prices. Given a choice of walking
to the store or spending $8/gal, what do you think will happen?

Yours In Christ,
John

On 18 Jul 2006 15:39:37 -0700, "laura halliday"
wrote, in part:
Starlord wrote:
Was sitting out by the gathering table and a few of the other people where
there too. I was offered a car to buy, only $300.00! Wow, figured it
couldn't be as bad as the one I'm running now, that was until I saw it. It's
a blue Chevy El Camro(sp?) you know that pickup that's not a pickup, a car
that's not a car...

Such vehicles never really caught on in North America,
though Ford (Ranchero) and Chevrolet (El Camino) both tried.

I know I've seen several of them on the road here in Edmonton, Alberta,
and I was wondering what they were called. I thought that was a
particularly useful vehicle, at least if it was a pickup at the *price*
of a regular car. If it was considerably more expensive, I can imagine
it wouldn't have caught on.

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Starlord wrote:
If you lived out here in the Desert where that 8 mile walk in daylight
hours
would be 100F, you'd pay for the gas.


You speak of the outlier population. The majority will change their
lives to accomodate for the eventual $5-6/gal, most notably the ones
who drive just a few blocks to the store. You have to turn the heat up
gradually so the population won't notice the pinch on the wallet.

Maybe the majority should just change their voting practice so that we don't
have a major war in the oil producing regions and could trade for it at a
reasonable price.

On the other hand, maybe we should just invest a few trillion in good old
nuclear fusion (works for the sun after all - and it's the most abundant
element) and hydrogen fuel cell technology (using renewable energy sources
to crack water). However - perhaps the minority running the war (and owning
the US domestic reserves) wouldnt like that. Has it ever struck anyone that
cheap oil is bad for the people that own the last of it? And that hydrogen
makes up 98% or so of the mass of the solar system ?

The rest of you are screwed. The guvmint won't help you out 'cause our
domestic spending VISA card will be maxed out after war with Iran.

Not just 'cause of that - but beacause it's not in their best interest ?

Darwinism at its best.

Indeed.