[V8] On the end of the V8 because of fuel....

[diemarthadie at aol.com]

 I had clients from the Netherlands over a few years ago.? They were in the US for a week (2 days in our shop/area near Philly) and wanted to meet some of the other vendors they dealt with.? The had rented a car and handed me the list asking which order to go in so they could see each for a day or so.? I looked at the list which included FL, IL, TX, WA and MD.? They assumed they were all close enough together that they could make a short drive to each.? I pulled out a map and said, even if you fly that won't work.? They really weren't aware of the scale here. 



It lends itself to the other discussion about why most US residents speak one language.? My reply is always because I don't need to know another language to do business in a different state.? If everyone here had to learn Newyawkish and Floridian to do business they would.? I do speak bits of several languages because I want to and from European travel but I'm quite non-fluent in them.



 






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From: urq <urq at pacbell.net>

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Sent: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:41 am

Subject: Re: [V8] On the end of the V8 because of fuel....



  
    ... and out here in Kahleefohnia there are a lot of folks who bought homes  they could afford over 50 miles away from where they work.  So many people  in fact that there's often a 50+ mile traffic jam waiting for them twice a  day.  They have precious few options other than carpooling.  I knew I'd  probably be doing hard time in prison if I even tried to do something like  that on a daily basis, so I'm not one of those people.  Some folks in Europe  don't realize that there are states in the USA where it can take a day of  driving to cross.  I remember when I went to visit my friend in El Paso,  Texas.  When he asked me where I'd like to go I said it would be great to  see the manned space flight center in Houston, he asked me if I knew that  when I was in El Paso I was closer to Los Angeles than I was to Houston.      I've always tried to take the view that no matter where you are there are  going to be positives and negatives ... and people are going to complain  when their situation changes in a negative way, so I try not to get down on  them too much ...     I do have to say that I did take some comfort when I heard in the news the  other day that Kahleefohnia was no longer the location in the Continental  USA that is paying the highest price for gas ... I'll bet that lasted for 15  minutes ... :-)    Steve B  San Jose, CA (USA)    -----Original Message-----    Part of Ingo's point is that those areas with no viable public  transportation facilities also are frequently many, many miles from centers  of commerce/work places.  It's not unusual for someone to spend an hour in  their automobile each way going to and coming home from work.      Bastian Preindl <bastian at preindl.net> wrote:  Hi Ingo,    this may be true, but don't think that all or even the majority of   middle Euope is covered by public transportation. We have a increasing   migration into cities - in the capitols you really don't need a car. But   on the countryside we're also lost without a car, and it's getting   worse. So still you'
ve to pay less than a half for the fuel in   comparison to us. The price encrease is enormous, that's true, but from   the absolute point of view you are still doing fine :)    Bastian    Ingo Rautenberg schrieb:  > Bastian,  >  > One big difference, though. Many of us live in areas in the U.S. That have  no public transportation alternatives. And so we have seen the price of fuel  increase 50 percent within a little over a year.   >  > Ingo Rautenberg    _______________________________________________  Audifans V8 mailing list  Send posts to: mailto:V8 at audifans.com  Manage your list connection: http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/v8    You can help keep the audifans site running by shopping at http://audifans.com/shop/