<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4613.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT: 10pt verdana; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV>The lack of an energy policy is exactly right.  It is so inspiring to see what the Bush administration came up with...OIL & MORE OIL.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David I.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 5/8/01 at 7:40 AM Mitch Ruth wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV>Wim, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wish I tuned half that many in a week....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Richard,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The price of gas has been going up for over a year now and the economy has been slowing for about the same amount of time.  History has shown that tax cuts will stimulate the ecomomy and it is just common sense that if people have more money in their pockets they will spend it.  In addition, if you are overcharged at the store it is right and prudent to expect your money back.  If the government has a huge surplus of our cash, they should give it back.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grin...you should really get informed before you let your political bias allow you to slam your former countrymen...grin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mitch Ruth</DIV> <DIV>DeMossville, KY</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PS Gas prices are related to the definite lack of energy policy in the US for the past 10 years.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; FONT-COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Richard Brekne</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 07, 2001 4:35 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: no tunings</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Grin.... well hey.. you all just HAAADDDDD to elect an ultra conservative for a president... who just HAAAAADDDD to start right off dinking around with a sizzling economy in the name of some absurd idea that somebody over there needed a tax cut...... sorry... but ya'll got no ones to blames but yerselfs... grin... <BR>  <BR>  <P>Patrick C Poulson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Wim: I have experienced a slow down for several months now. Definitely slower than last year.  People are not rescheduling as quickly as before, and the phone is a lot quieter.  I think the whole economy is slowing down, and energy prices here in California have got a lot of us worried. Patrick</FONT></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>Bergen, Norway <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <BR>  <DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=2 Arial></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT> <DIV><BR><BR clear=all> <HR> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <A href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</A><BR> <P></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>