August 19th 05, 10:23 AM
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:02:00 -0500, wrote:
prices are too high.I Believe in parking all vehicles (including my own
vehicles) and SHUTTING DOWN! AMERICA!
Well, in the UK we pay 91p a litre (US$6.17 per gallon) and our
economy is doing just fine. Then again, our biggest island is only 700
miles long, so you run out of land to drive on after two tanks of
petrol (gasoline).
Going back on-topic, being on an island only 700 miles long makes
radio transmissions a lot easier - for instance, we can have one
transmitter covering the entire nation (eg. BBC Radio 4 on 198kHz AM
Long Wave). It must be quite odd living somewhere where you have to
re-tune AM depending on where you are. Then again, I guess the US sees
itself as more of a federation of states rather than one big country,
so maybe you don't see that as odd. Out of interest, does the US have
the RDS system whereby FM radios retune themselves automatically as
you drive around different areas? Does such a system exist for AM when
you drive really long distances? In the UK that obviously isn't a
requirement... ;-)
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Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK
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