Shades of...
MAD MAX.
DSH
"Peter Jason" <pj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:g3hhi5$ovu$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Things can always get worse. In the 1970s gasoline here became
> unavailable for a short time due to union strikes and cars slowly
> disappeared off the roads. Gangs were roaming the streets with
> geologist's picks and rubber hoses to siphon fuel from kerb-parked
> vehicles. I was running my banger on White Spirit and Mineral Turps at
> that time, and now I am starting to hoard fuel; just siphon from your
> tank into jerrycans and go and fill up again. There is talk here of
> compressing town gas into aluminum cylinders (surreptitiously overnight)
> and running cars on this, though I haven't seen any economic analysis of
> this. This week China upped the tax on gasoline to slow down demand.
The
> Dow has crashed thru the 12000 sup****t level.
>
> Something wicked this way comes.
