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Did you top off your tank because of the tensions in the ME?
Re: Did you top off your tank because of the tensions in the
by Dreamtwister » Sat 15 Jul 2006, 03:34:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'I') don't see 20 minutes been significant in a decline lasting a couple of decades.
That's *if* everything goes down smoothly. There's a hundred things that could cause a hard crash. And until you can produce those fuel efficiency figures, I can't think of a good reason not to be prepared for the worst. I believe Machiavelli said it best:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niccolo Machiavelli', 'I') compare her (lady luck) to one of those raging rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings, bearing away the soil from place to place; everything flies before it, all yield to its violence, without being able in any way to withstand it; and yet, though its nature be such, it does not follow therefore that men, when the weather becomes fair, shall not make provision, both with defences and barriers, in such a manner that, rising again, the waters may pass away by canal, and their force be neither so unrestrained nor so dangerous. So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.
"The Prince", Ch. 25
The whole of human history is a refutation by experiment of the concept of "moral world order". - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: Did you top off your tank because of the tensions in the
by rogerhb » Sat 15 Jul 2006, 03:47:40
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'T')here's a hundred things that could cause a hard crash. And until you can produce those fuel efficiency figures, I can't think of a good reason not to be prepared for the worst.
Oh absolutely true, however we've already moved out of the city rather than waiting for the last 20 minutes, so don't need the petrol tank full for a quick getaway, we're already 'away'.
If you and your families lives are dependent on a magic 20 minutes then you have seriously gone wrong with your planning.
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
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Re: Did you top off your tank because of the tensions in the
by Dreamtwister » Sat 15 Jul 2006, 12:04:25
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'O')h absolutely true, however we've already moved out of the city rather than waiting for the last 20 minutes, so don't need the petrol tank full for a quick getaway, we're already 'away'.
If you and your families lives are dependent on a magic 20 minutes then you have seriously gone wrong with your planning.
If you and your families lives are dependent on a magic 20 minutes then you have seriously gone wrong with your planning.
You make a good point. Prepositioning *outside* the city is the ideal situation. Unfortunately, my job has prevented my relocation...for now. For me, it's a race against time. Will I put away enough to make the move before "something bad" happens? I don't know. But I've also prepared for the possibility that I won't. If I can't get out, I can dig in.
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