MIKE Hunter's smaller car thesis??

I started doing accident investigations back when seatbelts were still
optional equipment, but I can't remember one accident where the
vehicle's occupants would have been better off without seatbelts.

On the other hand, I did know a person who would not have lost his big
toe if he hadn't been wearing steel-toed safety shoes, and my father
may have died prematurely, from Parkinson's disease, because he quit
smoking at age 75. Still, I don't mow the lawn without safety shoes
or smoke.

 

IIRC, he wasn't speeding. He has people to do that for him.

 

IIRC, he wasn't speeding. He has people to do that for him.

 

"Bill Ward"...

Mea culpa.



Natalie

 

"Bill Ward"...

Mea culpa.



Natalie

 

Yeah - a state trooper was doing 90-ish mph during that accident. Meanwhile,
11 teens were killed in gruesome car accidents here over the past month, and
the police say some were "speed related".

 

Yeah - a state trooper was doing 90-ish mph during that accident. Meanwhile,
11 teens were killed in gruesome car accidents here over the past month, and
the police say some were "speed related".

 

Although, if you are talking about US imports, we don't buy much oil from
hostiles - Venezuela is the top of the hostile oil supplier list at 13% of
our imports. Canada is our #1 source of imported oil at 22%, Mexico is #2 at
19%, Saudi Arabia is #3 at 16%. It's been that way for a long time. In fact,
according to the US Dept of Energy, 55% of our oil imports come from the
western hemisphere. http://tinyurl.com/7ldt Another 16% comes from Saudi
Arabia, with which we have better relations than we do with some of our
supposed allies. Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are the only mid-east
countries to even make the list. (Iraq is only 5.5% of our imports and
Kuwait is only 1.5%, for those oil-for-war theorists out there.) And US oil
consumption is still only about what it was in 1978. Over the last quarter
century US oil consumption has fluctuated only about 20% from present
values, 25% from the 1983 minimum.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/25opec/sld007.htm

Mike

 

Although, if you are talking about US imports, we don't buy much oil from
hostiles - Venezuela is the top of the hostile oil supplier list at 13% of
our imports. Canada is our #1 source of imported oil at 22%, Mexico is #2 at
19%, Saudi Arabia is #3 at 16%. It's been that way for a long time. In fact,
according to the US Dept of Energy, 55% of our oil imports come from the
western hemisphere. http://tinyurl.com/7ldt Another 16% comes from Saudi
Arabia, with which we have better relations than we do with some of our
supposed allies. Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are the only mid-east
countries to even make the list. (Iraq is only 5.5% of our imports and
Kuwait is only 1.5%, for those oil-for-war theorists out there.) And US oil
consumption is still only about what it was in 1978. Over the last quarter
century US oil consumption has fluctuated only about 20% from present
values, 25% from the 1983 minimum.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/25opec/sld007.htm

Mike

 

For further clarification of "hemisphere", I'll share some enlightenment
from the commander in chief:

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because
it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."—Austin, Texas, Dec.
20, 2000

 

For further clarification of "hemisphere", I'll share some enlightenment
from the commander in chief:

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because
it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."—Austin, Texas, Dec.
20, 2000

 

Actually, it's quite simple; most travel is within 30 minutes of one's
home. Additionally, longer distances usually imply highway miles.
Interstate highways don't have intersections or opposing traffic (on the
same roadway) and are much, much safer than city streets.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

Actually, it's quite simple; most travel is within 30 minutes of one's
home. Additionally, longer distances usually imply highway miles.
Interstate highways don't have intersections or opposing traffic (on the
same roadway) and are much, much safer than city streets.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

That link is badly outdated as it reflects 1997-98 figures...

JT

 

That link is badly outdated as it reflects 1997-98 figures...

JT

 

I used it because it shows the trend well. Nothing has changed; here's most
of a decade later (same range, but loses the interesting stuff in the '70s)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Usa/Oil.html and the up-to-date figures in
a chart format http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mttupus1m.htm
Comparing that to census numbers
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/intfile1-1.txt the oil
usage per capita is virtually identical to what it was in 1980; the
population increased 22% while oil consumption increased 23% (1980-2000, the
limits of the census numbers on that view). I haven't graphed the entire
data set but just scanning the numbers and comparing it to the petroleum
consumption graphs I'd be amazed to find a 5% variance in per capita
consumption more than a couple places in the covered period.

Mike

 

I used it because it shows the trend well. Nothing has changed; here's most
of a decade later (same range, but loses the interesting stuff in the '70s)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Usa/Oil.html and the up-to-date figures in
a chart format http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mttupus1m.htm
Comparing that to census numbers
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/intfile1-1.txt the oil
usage per capita is virtually identical to what it was in 1980; the
population increased 22% while oil consumption increased 23% (1980-2000, the
limits of the census numbers on that view). I haven't graphed the entire
data set but just scanning the numbers and comparing it to the petroleum
consumption graphs I'd be amazed to find a 5% variance in per capita
consumption more than a couple places in the covered period.

Mike

 

Did you know if you drill deep enough you can find natural gas anywhere,
even in your own backyard? Bet you, JSB didn't know that.

 

Did you know if you drill deep enough you can find natural gas anywhere,
even in your own backyard? Bet you, JSB didn't know that.

 

If you believed that cutting off your pecker would somehow distract from
your master's foolishness, you'd have the cleaver out instantly.