In article t, Rick
Cortese wrote:
Somewhere around 4 billion gallons a year for alchohol alone. That's
maybe six fill ups per family/year and expanding.

Lets see, when I had a car (a state of affairs that may be
looming in the not too-distant future too), that would have been
between a half and a third of my fuel needs. Probably nearer a half.
Needless to say, if we get a car for the wife, we'll make sure that
it's an efficient one, not a guzzler like the last one. She likes the
Smart cars - http://www.betterproductdesign.net/n...s/smartcar.htm -
and goes all wobbly when she sees one in the street. (I'm just fuming a
bit that the websites describing them almost universally use Flash, so
the adverts are inaccessible.) We'd probably have to go for the larger
ForFour version, having another 3 years at least in which we've got to
provide for Polina. We'd have to work out the likely lifetime and
re-sale value ... damned complex thing, trying to decide what to get.

Ohhh, I *like* the fact that body panels are made by ... Dynamit
Nobel. They should advertise that more!

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:09 +0100, but posted later.