Re: Quote: "Why are Americans so angry about petrol prices?"
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 5:03 pm
Remind me John, when is that you come back to live in the UK?
Tim
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GrUmPyBoDgEr wrote:I will never forget an Uncle of mine who when looking at the tide race in the Severn at Portishead, said to me as a little lad, "look at all of that potential energy!"
Now nobody can raise the funds to put a barrier across that stretch of water; what a waste.
Oh & the "green" & "NIMBY" arguments against just do not add up.
Frank Howard wrote:GrUmPyBoDgEr wrote:I will never forget an Uncle of mine who when looking at the tide race in the Severn at Portishead, said to me as a little lad, "look at all of that potential energy!"
Now nobody can raise the funds to put a barrier across that stretch of water; what a waste.
Oh & the "green" & "NIMBY" arguments against just do not add up.
John,
Would you mind explaining what the tide race in the Severn at Portishead is? What did you mean about putting a barrier across a stretch of water? What are "green" & "NIMBY" arguments?
JJDraper wrote:......Currently 6 quid will struggle to get two pints of good beer - fizzy cr*p maybe. ........
Jeremy