Originally Posted by ASWnut101

Heh, I don't check those numbers. All I know is that it's the "normal" gas. (out of 'normal,' 'super' and 'supreme'). :oops:

Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara

That gallon would cost you $4.10 in Ireland right now and thats a good price!

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Normal is 87

Originally Posted by Skybird

(whispering sweet as candy through a bush of flowers): Do you know how many "aliens" are fighting in the US armed forces to earn themselves US state citizenship by that? Hint: a US journalist some time ago on German TV described the situation in the non-officer ranks as "America's mercenary army".... It's a mean way to get citizenship in the US. And the US makes maximum use of this bad habit. Vietnam had more aliens in the US army then WWII. Iraq has more aliens in the US army than Vietnam. Compare: WWII had more WASP-Americans in the army than Vietnam. Vietnam had more WASP-Americans in the army than Iraq.

Originally Posted by Ishmael

Bring our troops home from Iraq & reconquer Mexico. They have gas, they're a lot closer & half of them would move to the US anyway. Let them trade their corruption with our corruption. All that & Spanish is easier to learn than Arabic. I know we can do it because my ancestor, Gen. Winfield Scott, already did it once. Now that we've settled that pesky slavery question, it should be a cakewalk. We'll be greeted as liberators & given candy & flowers.

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

@subman

2 things, 1) even if illegal immigrants are as well off as you say, and even if all 11 million of them drive, that is just a perverbial drop in the ocean compared to the rest of the US population. So I personally don't see that as making a rather big difference. But that is just my view of it as a 3rd party. It will help slightly certainly, but solve the problem it will not.

2) As I say, you love your military and I think you puff out your chest at that thought too. But....... there are other ways to show dedication to the country you are in, not just saying "gimme a gun at let me fight for you" What about the immigrant that is not afraid of hard honest work? Surely they must count.

@Iceman

See thinking about this logically, you go back a couple of hundred years and well, you did the exact same thing to the native Americans didn't you? (Granted they didn't have laws like we know it) It wasn't your land, your country, but when you moved westward you took it from them, with force if need be was that paying the due? So its kind of an irony when modern day Americans complain about illegal immigration. Considering only a few hundred years back you did the exact same thing and took a dump on a culture that was already established, herded them up and stuck them on reservations out of the way and gave them casino rights. They had to make do. Illegal immigrants enter any way they can and take what they want, you might think this sounds anti-American but I just can't help but see the similarities.

Originally Posted by Yahoshua

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Just injecting a bit of history here: It was actually the French and the Brit fur trappers who introduced the concept of scalping when they came to the americas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

So why can't cars be hydrogen powered? Use that instead. Also bear in mind, if Japan and Germany were able to make fuel from means other than oil why can't it be done today? The technology and knowhow must exist.