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It always disappoints me to hear and read such comments.
"Near as I can figure, this planet is an extreme accident,"
People on this board will remark about the amazing design of tractors or other mechanical devices, which show the extent of man's so called evolution. But there is no man made device in existence that compares to the complexity of even the simplest single celled organism. The real Creator is laughing at mankind’s arrogance and pride in all his “creations”. Always remember, any design requires a designer.
Randy
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Thank you Randy. Accidents, by definition, bring with them disruption and chaos, not organization and life.
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In response to Randy Eckerd's comment.
DITTO!!!!!
Cold hard facts:
Nobody knows how much oil we have.
This planet is huge. How arrogent we are, to think we can get a complete and accurate inventory, and reulate it's usage.
We humans are an unruly bunch. Always have been. Since the begining.
Adam and Eve made that fact abundantly clear. Eve was tempted, and took a bite. Adam listened to his wife in that matter, and joined her. As it turns out, they were both wrong in their actions.
We don't know what Adam looked like for sure, but...just for fun...let's say he looked like Homer Simpson.
When God bannished them from the Garden of Eden, and they were set forth, to scratch a living from the earth....I can just here Adam(Homer) saying the following......."DOOOOLT!!!!!)
Little Known Fact:
Located about 20 miles, northwest of Evansville Indiana, you will find a woods. In this woods there is a mighty oak tree. 50 feet, due south of this oak tree, you will find a rock that is a distinct shade of green. Roll over that rock, and stick your hand inside the hole. Within this hole is a dipstick that is used to check the earth's oil level. Please remember, this must be done in the winter months. Everyone knows the earth's oil level should only be checked when cold.
I hope this clears things up a bit.
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MrE: Nice to see you commenting again. Guess I should have known that the earth and machinery work differently. My father-in-law tells me I get wrong reading if I check the oil without starting the engine first. Guess it's a good thing because 'starting the earth' might be hard to figure out.
Randy: My throwaway comment isn't inconsistent with what you said. Thomas Aquinas might have asked '...and what created the carbon cycle' and so on in what he called a cosmology. Scientific explanations can be taken as just figuring things out within a limited framework. I was the one who said that this is pretty far from tractors and I suppose it'd be good for me to take myself at my own word.
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I would like to debunk another myth if I might. The average price of gasoline has been tied to US inflation for the last 50 years despite the peaks and valleys.
It is a bit hard to determine which is the chicken or the egg, but there seems to be a correlation and obviously if we look at the high inflation years of the 70 and 80's they seem to be somewhat in a response to the inflationary pressure of oil prices (Not Carter).
I guess this shows the need for stable energy suppliers and that we are not really paying more for gas than we did. Maybe less.
The inflation is published number and the averge gas cost in 55 is from the US energy commision numbers.
There was a scam pulled in the 80's where the octane level of regular was lowered, therefore the old regular is now mid grade, therefore the later numbers may better correlate to the midgrade numbers.
Year Inflation Cost
Rate Regular Gas
1955 -0.31 $0.30
1956 1.56 $0.30
1957 3.38 $0.30
1958 2.98 $0.31
1959 0.58 $0.32
1960 1.72 $0.33
1961 1.13 $0.33
1962 1.12 $0.33
1963 1.1 $0.34
1964 1.37 $0.34
1965 1.62 $0.35
1966 2.92 $0.35
1967 2.84 $0.36
1968 4.26 $0.37
1969 5.29 $0.39
1970 5.94 $0.41
1971 4.31 $0.43
1972 3.31 $0.45
1973 6.2 $0.47
1974 11.11 $0.50
1975 8.98 $0.55
1976 5.75 $0.60
1977 6.62 $0.64
1978 7.59 $0.68
1979 11.28 $0.73
1980 13.48 $0.81
1981 10.36 $0.92
1982 6.16 $1.02
1983 3.21 $1.08
1984 4.37 $1.11
1985 3.54 $1.16
1986 1.86 $1.20
1987 3.66 $1.23
1988 4.12 $1.27
1989 4.81 $1.32
1990 5.39 $1.39
1991 4.22 $1.46
1992 3.01 $1.52
1993 2.98 $1.57
1994 2.6 $1.62
1995 2.76 $1.66
1996 2.96 $1.70
1997 2.35 $1.75
1998 1.51 $1.79
1999 2.21 $1.82
2000 3.38 $1.86
2001 2.86 $1.92
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