Re: [gardeners] West Oz Weather

George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:12:08 -0600

I wish I had a paid for house myself. Of course we've never lived in a
house long enough to pay one off.

George

Zelhart Alan-rpcs30 wrote:
> 
> Ahhh, now that is the good thing!  My car is paid off! =)
> 
> Chat with you later,
> Alan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tr1ulium@bellsouth.net [mailto:tr1ulium@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:58 PM
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: Re: Re: [gardeners] West Oz Weather
> 
> Isn't the last payment so satisfying?  Paid off my last car early, and said I didn't want a car payment again.  Just bought a Ford Escape this week, so here come the payments again!  Wouldn't have done it, but needed the four-wheel drive to get up our steep gravel drive in the winter.  Got kinda tired of having to park at the bottom and walk up a quarter mile, carrying groceries, etc.
> Probably won't drive it too much (unless I'm hauling stuff), in favor of vehicle with better gas mileage.
> 
> Elizabeth
> tiarella@bellsouth.net
> >
> > From: George Shirley <gshirl@bellsouth.net>
> > Date: 2003/03/13 Thu PM 02:11:50 EST
> > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > Subject: Re: [gardeners] West Oz Weather
> >
> > $1.52 here at non-brand stations, up to $1.85 at national brand
> > stations. I'm glad my little Hyundai gets 32 miles per gallon. Just went
> > down and paid off the loan on it this morning, it looks even better now.
> > <VBG>
> >
> > George
> >
> > Jann wrote:
> > >
> > > We are still at 1.51 and going up.
> > >
> > > Janni
> > >
> > > At 09:31 AM 3/13/03 -0800, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hello, again, Marc,
> > > >
> > > >Luckily, we in Los Angeles, are not in the same boat with most of
> > > >California so far as electicity is concerned: LA has its own municipal
> > > >power plant.
> > > >
> > > >What I was referring to is the upward spiraling of oil and natural gas
> > > >costs involved in the production of electricity. Gasoline at my local
> > > >station, for regular unleaded, is now $2.07 per gallon. At that rate, it
> > > >costs me $30.00 to fill up my Honda Accord every week!
> > > >
> > > >Ron
> >