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You are RIGHT! Good engine and poor body!They were cheap cars. Things are changed now.CIAO

Carl, This is the kind of thread that allows all of the participants to voice their opinions on a subject that most are passionate about. Nothing wrong with that my friend...you started a good one!!

My older brother's first car was a used Fiat X1/9. It suffered numerous mechanical breakdowns. My dad assumed my (then teenaged) brother was too hard on the equipment and took it away and drove it himself.

One day, while my dad was driving to work, the left-front suspension broke and the wheel folded under the car. That's when my dad realized it was the car, not the driver....

I am in central Iowa and the "EXPLOSION" (no pun) in ethanol has changed the farming outlook. Land prices have jumped, corn prices have jumped etc. It costs more to raise cattle with the high priced corn so beef, pork and eggs have gone up. What may be a reason to help the economy, (use a lot of corn for tax supported ethanol), could, in the long run, be detrimental. This week, it was announced that some of the ethanol plants are not making a profit with the high corn prices. This will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Yeah - I wonder if they figured that would happen. This is what happens when ya get policy made by a knee-jerk reaction - exactly what the Founding Fathers were afraid of - read Federalist Ten.

Ya know, there is a method to figure out how this would affect the economy, or at least get a vague idea, even if whomever didn't use common sense to see what the chain reaction would've been. it's called Leontief Input-Output analysis, and yeah, it can get nasty since so many factors have to be considered, but gee - isn't that why we have computers and allegedly enough smart people in high places?

Man... I tell ya... things are in a spiral.

MAKE IT GREAT!!! VOTE POOBS IN '08!!!

You can use all of the hypothetical scenarios, formulae, projections, forecasts, profit/loss histories, analyses, whatever...!

Supply and demand will strike a balance every time. It may take a while... but there is an end to every "spiral"!

Yeah...don't they call it a Crash Site?

Gas here was around $3/gal before the "boycott", now it's $3.38/gal....boy we sure showed them didn't we!

I know!!!!!,

My gas at 1B1 jumped up 25 cents today!!!!,

What the heck did you guys do??

Don't look at me!

I didn't buy gas on the 15th!

But, every time I passed a gas station, cars were lined up at the pumps! (sigh!)