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2300 and getting lighter :) fork are you a honda feller? do tell! i have a D engine not a B so the rod/stroke is low like american engines and puts out matching tq per cc
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im just a car guy

at some point i had a honda, right now i have a vw, currently in the market for a 99-00 Subaru RS Coupe.

i read alot of car related technical material, also, as i posted elsewhere (and 35mm can confirm), i race cars on a circuit track.

Also had the privilege to drive a Lotus Elise balls out on 3 separate racetracks :) :)
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What happend with the Evo? :).
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EVO 3 cant be imported yet

also what i really want is evo5/6, would have to wait till 2012-13 for those

also, cool as it is, RHD cars are ass to drive in a city with so many left turns, its just dangerous.
 
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nice! im planning on hitting up dunnville and maybe shannonville this year, see ya there? the rs coupe is also sexy, my favorite subby. speaking of importing, ive seen a couple R32s and RHD civics around. i guess they just barely passed the 15 year minimum. hey where else do you post? im a member at jdmrides.ca

Kirock said:
Yes 40% of our cost is Fed and Prov taxes, but near 48% is market price of crude oil. Does oil really need to still be traded on the open market like it was the year 1920? Just like Unions, open market trading of crude oil commodities should be considered a thing of the past.

A global world government(s) standard should be set on the cost of oil/barrel, using labour costs, amount of oil left, etc. In other words when do we declare oil (and thus gasoline), an essential commodity (service) to world economies and human development? However if I use that argument I'll have to allow that Water is also an essential commodity (service) and thus Canada would have to share it's water resources with the rest of the world under a similar global cost structure.

I'll point out that a lot of "social" services, like Police, Fire, Hospital and others are deemed "essential services" by a lot of Governments around the world and are thus banned from strikes and other work slow downs, however NO commodities (that I know of) have been deemed thus so yet anywhere.

Maybe it's time.

Just a thought.

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so even if there were a unified ruling body over gasoline sales, what would stop the individual state governments from taxing it as they see fit? personally, i would be pissed off to live in an OPEC country and pay as much per barrel as the U.S. hell it already pisses me off that we have to send a bunch of our crude stateside to get refined and bring it back to use in our cars.

im guessing that's the same reason there is no unified regulation on other commodities. i mean, if i had to pay the same money for a loaf of bread as an african kid that would mean i'm also helping foot the bill to send our wheat there. sounds like a shit deal to me, and would also fuck with everyone's GDP i'll bet
 
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I remember when it was a dime!
@ s@lv dor: You're right, each State or Fed Gov can set their own tax rate, so be it, and local refinery, shipping and handling charges apply too, but with a global fix on $/barrel, at least that variable is fixed (well at least fixed on an annual bases or some scheme like that). Those other cost would also be fairly fixed (they don't fluctuate now like price/barrel does).

As for the bread argument, well really, fixing the price of wheat/ton world wide would do very little for the local price of bread or other wheat products, again b/c of all the shipping and processing costs the local region would pay. Secondly, wheat prices don't vary that much (spike), unless some crazy drought hit real hard in the mid west N.A.

With oil, so much of the world's economies depend on transportation (trade and product delivery), and that's everything from airplanes, container ships, trains to trucks, that the world would plunge into a new darkage if the oil runs out before we have an alternative fuel/technology. So when oil prices spikes up, and that's just b/c the rich corporate investment firms bastards jump on buying oil stock the second anything bad happens, this has such a bad effect on the world economy. Right now when the W.E is reeling from the bank collapse, the LAST thing we need is some rich fucks artificially driving oil prices so they can make another $50 Billion profit year.
 
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USA should just keep raiding other countries oil supplies and shipping it back to fill up their empty wells or into some other storage system. This goes for any other natural resources, they might have too. They have done too much fuckery to stop now.

Oil prices are fully supply and demand, I am pretty sure that an alternative is already available, and the shot callers are just waiting for the right time for the transition.
 
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