Re: Typical pig behavior perfect example of why there's bad air, high gas prices..

On Thu, 29 May 2008 17:31:38 -0500, Brent P
<tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-05-29, Dave Head <rally2xs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 17:00:27 -0500, Brent P
<tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-05-29, Dave <noway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lol... like my present clothes wouldn't last a few years.. I think it
would be all sorted out long before then then... Eat? Stored food would
cover it.... but if not there's always the deer and the geese and the
fish...

You make your own bows and arrows and fishing rods? You manufacture your
own ammunition? Like many, you don't seem to realize that if you can
physically touch it, a truck brought it to you. -Dave

You act as if the world would stop forever if your kind just stopped
working. That isn't the case. goods would get to market after an initial
shock that I estimate would last days. Even one box of bullets or one
quiver of arrows or one canister of bb's would last a few days....

Businesses would get the goods to market one way or another. The sudden
end of long distance trucking wouldn't be but a blip. In any case the
high fuel prices will cause a more graceful end to long distance
trucking.

Again, you're an idiot.

You've resorted to name calling so it's pretty clear you don't have a
counter argument.

You think things can be moved by magic.

Strawman.

Do you think that every other person in the Chicago area has the same idea
about shooting the damn geese, deer, etc? They do. How many geese do you
think you have, anyway? They'd be extinct after the 1st 2 weeks of starvation.
Plus, you're going to jail for shooting them out of season, most likely,
anyway.

Two weeks of starvation? More like two days of slim shelves and that's
*if* the media hypes it as doomsday. Hell if happened between
shopping trips for me I might not even notice it happened at all.

Let's say that all the other people willing to drive trucks long
distance are somehow scared off by the thuggish behavior of the
teamsters. Business will find other ways. Air, rail, personal vehicles,
horse drawn cart if need be.

Even if the truckers could pull off something so massive and complete it
would be simply be a blip. Just another 'strike' people find a way
around.

Of course it's highly unlikely that such a work stoppage could even be
pulled off. We've seen the results of truckers attempting to show how
important they are to protest high fuel prices. Their attempts make the
idiotic 'gas-out days' (that are flawed in concept) look successful by
comparison.

The market would replace them or change to other means of transport
swiftly and they know it, which is why they put up which such miserable
working conditions.

Moron.

All you have is name calling because deep down you know I'm right.


Look, genius, we're not talking about a strike, we're talking about fuel being
so expensive that it is impossible to make any money transporting anything by
truck. In such circumstances, not even illegal aliens will drive the damn
things. The rails are already groaning under the weight of the cargo they're
carrying now, and require $148 billion worth of upgrades over the next 30 years
just to keep up with demand. Moving that kind of cargo by air is also a joke -
so expensive you couldn't afford it even if you were starving, which you will
be (not for long tho... you'll die, quick enough.)

You are so wrong it is absolutely laughable. The idea that the economy will do
anything but absolutely collapse, and not have millions of people starve to
death, when all our trucked goods stop moving, is just ridiculous.
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