Ta-da.  

KingOfPain wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2008 at 11:50am:


Agreeable, Steve.  Neither of the abandoned houses next to me were in either business; those down the block, I don't know.

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Many there are, Starbucks is one.  I thought I'd make mention of the automotive industry too, lost jobs was the similar point. 
  If the fact that follows that less caps and fraps are able to be enjoyed came across as where my sympathies lied, I apologize for the wording.  The chance quite a few of the closing Starbucks may be from around here is pretty good, relating another domino in an already bad situation, however, here, buried somewhere in the local news amid the decline of this state's biggest industry.

A paradigm shift of enormous proportions and we get to live it.  Happy we got out of the market when we did. Never tasted Starbucks coffee.

Thinking of selling the truck while its still worth a little something.  Maybe buy a scooter and one of those compost tumbler things. Any takers?

Steve G

when i was a mechanic years ago, it seemed that gm ford and chysler would design thier vehicles to need repairs after a couple years and the repairs were impractical to fix. i talked to a tech that worked at a chevy dealership and he did 18 fuel pumps in one day. all of them cavilers. i think if gm was interested in staying in business they'd quit making disposable cars.

now out in my driveway in my driveway i have a 91 gmc safari van with 230k, a 78 f-150 with 350k, and i have a 63 dodge dart in the garage. the van, loaded down with all my tile tools it got 21mpg. the big ford gets 15 mpg. the dart gets 24mpg (on the crappy 87 octane gas)  now think about that. the slant 6 i think came out in 1958 and it gets 24 mpg and the dart by todays standards is considered a midsized car. they discontinued that engine.

maybe people are starting to realize that you don't need to buy a new car every 3 years and that paying $6 for a cup of coffee is just plain stupid.

About an hour from my Home is the Lordstown Plant... they are currently manufacturing GM's Cobalt. I've been hearing on the news that they will actually be putting on a third shift and hiring new employees.

It's odd because in the same news reports I've been hearing that GM is actually beating out Toyota in sales. Sadly it will cost GM billions of dollars to convert  a plant making trucks and SUVs to manufacture smaller cars....

The writing has been on the walls for years and years,,, we know that we are dependent on foreign oil... and like blind little piggies we just kept making and buying gas hogs... with each fill up I wonder what percentage is going to fund the war against america... seems that we've used our big piggy cars and trucks to drive ourselves to the edge of our own destruction...

I guess a new motto can be... Support a terrorist... Buy a Hummer.


Didn't Osama Bin Ladden once say back in 1994 something like... "America will be made to suffer when oil reaches $149.00 a barrel."

At the time he made that comment oil was significantly cheaper.

"Starve a Terrorist... Ride a Bicycle!!!"

with warm regards,
Tony