Rex Kramer

Are you seriously trying to pass off Chavez as a fairly elected official? The Man is trying to change his countries Constitution so he can be President for life. I am not saying go to war with them, but Chavez a fairly elected official?

pokey9554

Was Bush fairly elected in 2000?

HercDriver130

Only whining democrats dont think so.

bifff15

I buy my fuel at the gas station either here or in Europe. I pay what's on the sign or the pump.

Do you know why Europe taxes fuel more than we do? To encourage people to drive more fuel efficient cars. Here we use the CAFE standards and taxes.

Next time you are over there look at the size of cars they drive. Last model years BMW 3 series is a large car to them. Diesel fuel costs marginally more over there than here, why is that? Diesel engines are more efficient, last longer, and get better economy. The government taxes them less to encourage people to buy them. I think Europe is around 50% diesel power on private cars.

The days of large vehicles (SUV's, Crown Vic's, Hummers) is coming to an uneconomically viable end. Too much weight to haul around and get affordable fuel economy.

Don't get me wrong, I like hot rods / sports car as much if not more than the next guy but if you can't afford to own one then it's onto something you can afford.

SKMarz

That is hard to say because of the annual revised seniority list (explained by someone else in an earlier post). If the number is really 1600 ish, then it certainly would take us through 99' seniority.

We have already witnessed management's greed and self interest. Now we will have to see how much the pilot group is willing to sacrifice to help each other. I did some rough numbers and my guesstimate is if everyone flew just 10 to 15 hours a month less, it would prevent most, if not all, furloughs. It would cost the company roughly 10 to 15 million a year for the continued benefits of those not furloughed but that number is a drop in the corporate bucket. Of course that might hurt Tilton's precious bonus that I'm certain he is going to give himself for all his good work

The problem is that reserves on the 737/320 are routinely flown 95 hours regardless of what they would like to fly. So obviously the company has to be willing to lower block hours but the union also has to fight for the adjustmet. Whether that happens will be largely dependent on how willing everyone is to sacrifice for the good of the whole group. Junior and Senior manning is so commonplace that it makes me very skeptical.

The other unknown factor is how many leaves of absences will be awarded and requested. Too many variables to really figure it all out just now.

I thought it was quite revealing that CAL's powers that be are taking a pay cut and actually talked about trying to come up with creative alternatives to furloughs. No such talk at United. In fact, our union admitted that the company did not even discuss any of this with them and that management hadn't even prepared any numbers yet. That speaks volumes to me.

Spaceman Spliff

Chavez fairly elected? For real?

And I suppose Stalin was a "firm but fair" leader, right? You may want to stop placing faith in leftist revisionist history books, the daily kos, and the new york times.

pokey9554

I'm gonna have to go ahead and say you probably don't have any idea what you're talking about.

Votes for Bush: 50,456,169
Votes for Gore: 50,996,116

540,000 more votes for Gore than Bush. A little more than half a million.

Those are facts my friend.

paxhauler85

This was 8 years ago and your still whining about it.

Don't worry, you'll have your chance at redemption soon. By redemption, I mean an underqualified, president running the country further into the ground.

"He'll solve it all!"

BlueMoon

Better than McCain. What makes McCain more qualified? Other than being closer to death.

McCain is Bush Lite. We don't need 4 more years of that.

I'm no Obama fan, but i'm willing to try anything else at this point.

pokey9554

You have no idea who I'm voting for nor what party, if any, I claim to be affiliated with. Perhaps you should run for president or nominate someone "qualified". Whether it was 8 years ago or not, it violates the principles of a democracy. It's going to take a long time to recover from this mess. Furthermore, I'm not sure if I'll get my chance at redemption since popular vote means nothing.

Paxhauler85 for pres.