<!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 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry talked me into a Prius 2 years ago. I been completely happy for 2 years, a great piano tech vehicle.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fenton</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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> <A title=koko99@shaw.ca href="mailto:koko99@shaw.ca">Carl Teplitski</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:52 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Gas I gasped!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The gas price where I live in Winnipeg, Canada is $ 125.9 a litre.  Takes roughly </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5 litres for an imperial gal. ( little larger than an american gal ). Sooooooo, if</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>my calculations are correct ( approx. )  we pay about   $ 6.25  per gal.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can remember when gas was 29c a gallon. A friend in the auto business said,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>when prices started to increase almost daily, that when price gets to $ 75c a gal.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the oil co.s will finally be happy, and prices will stabilize. " WRONG." They will never</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be happy , cause that's the mentality of big business. " NO CONSCIENCE."  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>   </FONT></DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=wwickham@stny.rr.com href="mailto:wwickham@stny.rr.com">Will Wickham</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:41 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Gas I gasped!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I'll second the Prius plug. I've had mine just under a year. While I don't think my mileage here in the north-east equals Terry's (the cold winter seems to lower the efficiency for some reason) I'm still right around 50 MPG. Until recently a fill up has been less than $30 and I've been refilling less than half as often as I was with the Caravan. <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>will</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>On May 14, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Farrell wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <DIV bgcolor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Gasoline - that's just so yesterday.......</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>And just one more reason to utilize a high fuel economy vehicle. My standard ride gets 55 mpg (650cc motorcycle), and when I need to transport an action or something else large, I can use our other vehicle that has averaged 53 mpg (Toyota Prius) over the past two+ years.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>At least the high fuel efficiency dampens the sting.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Working on an all-electric solution (electric motorcycle).......</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(228,228,228); -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial"><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone about to cry with these gas prices?  In Cincinnati to day gas reached an all new high, 395 per gallon.  Just going into full time University work is really starting to appeal to me.  Sure I would make less but I would pay less taxes and not have to worry about hiring  a driver.  Just one of the pit falls for blind technicians...  I moved back to Cincinnati in February when gas was about 1.30 lower than now.  Over the last few weeks the calls have gotten fewer and fewer.  Glad I have got a key bushing job and a regulating job coming in.  Sorry...  Just wanted to complain to someone who would know how I feel.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>