A status symbol beyond my comprehension

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Del. tag goes for $675,000

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  1. Von Cracker says:
    February 18, 2008 at 11:13 am

    The Bu$h Economy at work, fellas!

    I have to scrounge around to pay my winter-month power bills, but I’m glad to see those wealthy tax payers I’m supplementing for are spending their new-found disposable back into the local economy.

    Trickle-down works, Mudderfrackers!

    BTW, those plates have been known to pack-on a couple more inches….if you know what I’m sayin’…..

  2. G Rex says:
    February 18, 2008 at 11:27 am

    Meanwhile, somebody in the UAE paid $14 million for Dubai plate #1…most likely with our gas money, because we’re not allowed to drill for our own oil.

  3. donviti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    pretty good G, how you turned that around…

    we refine our oil though and look how good that works out in delaware.

    google valero for me or just read a post or two above for me.

  4. Von Cracker says:
    February 18, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    don’t you know, DV, that we have sooooo much in oil deposits that we can run everything on 11 for a thousand years!

    What a fucking retarded false argument you have there, G. 😉

  5. donviti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    but, but, but ANWAR…..

  6. Von Cracker says:
    February 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542853/

    But those book-learners are always wrong….

  7. Al Mascitti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    For GRex:

    United States proven oil reserves declined to a little less than 21 gigabarrels as of 2006 according to the Energy Information Administration. With consumption at 21 million barrels per day (7.7 gigabarrels per year) (2007), US reserves alone could satisfy US demand for only three years.

    That’s not realistic, of course, because even with that much in the ground it’s not possible to pump it out fast enough to meet that level of demand. Long comment made shorter, this is yet another canard taken as gospel truth by Great Americans.

  8. donviti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    Al,

    no offense, I liked VC’s response better. b/c if u know G rex, it was a fucking retarded arguement.

  9. nemski says:
    February 18, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Eh, not a big deal in my book. If someone wants to spend half-a-million or 14 million dollars of their own money, so be it. If a person like this was taxed some more, they’d still be able to buy it. Fact of the matter is that there are the super rich, the rich, the middle class and the poor; always will be.

  10. donviti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    and then the nemski’s of the world

  11. nemski says:
    February 18, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    come on, dispute what i said . . .

    to put it in perspective for all of us who don’t have half-a-million to piss away: what’s the difference between spending 99 cents on a Wendy’s burger or $30 on a filet?

    are we soon going to have arbiters of gluttony and good taste? gosh, i hope not.

  12. donviti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    if it pays well I’ll be an arbiter

  13. Al Mascitti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    On the other hand, we might have enough shale oil to last 100 years even at current rates of consumption, and nobody is opposed to exploiting it. The only problem is that it’s not economically feasible to turn the stuff into actual oil at current prices.

  14. nemski says:
    February 18, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    dv said, if it pays well I’ll be an arbiter

    to repeat what i said earlier, gosh, i hope not 🙂

  15. G Rex says:
    February 18, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Al, Henry Waxman is opposed, at least to Canadian tar sand oil, on the grounds that coal is burnt to produce steam in the refining process. (Waxman’s language in the Energy Independence Security Act was intended to stop shale oil processing in Colorado specifically, the Canadian oil is an innocent bystander.) As to what you posted previously about proven reserves, does not being able to meet 100% of our demand domestically mean we shouldn’t try to meet any of it? That’s like saying if we can’t deport all 12 million illegal aliens we shouldn’t look for any of them.

  16. Al Mascitti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    Go after as much of it as you want. Just be honest about it: We don’t have much compared with how much we consume. We have zero chance of meeting our ongoing oil needs domestically.

  17. anon says:
    February 18, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    And with the greenhouse effect, the more oil we burn, the more air conditioning and desalination we need!! There will be so much demand for oil, we will discover trillions more barrels!!

  18. cassandra m says:
    February 18, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    And note that the only way the oil companies see a way to make ANWAR profitable is with a subsidy (less than market value leases, startup funds, additional pipeline) from American taxpayers. If EXXONMobil cannot go to the capital markets to make this work, that tells you everything you need to know about this project.

  19. donviti says:
    February 18, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    hijacked! what about the freaking plate man….

  20. G Rex says:
    February 18, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Okay, I think having black and white plates as a status symbol is stupid, but the standard blue and yellow ones just look dopey. (I had a 5 digit plate on my Jetta, and a friend of mine was all “Dude, you should exchange it for a black and white one! Or sell it to me? Please? It would look so sweet on my GTi!” Of course, the Jetta was stolen for the rims, but that’s another story.) Anyway, if some jackass wants to lay out a huge wad of cash for a low number plate, so be it. Look at me, I have more money than brains! It’s a free country, whatever Jason says. If Paris Hilton wants a diamond encrusted Black Berry, who cares?

    Happy now?

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