Those were the product of Jimmuh Cahtah and his Moral Equivalent of War
(MEOW) about the A-rabs screwing us on oil.
An interesting dimension of that whole deal back then I got from a
friend I had gone to school with along in there, who worked for GATX
Corp. which basically owned all the rail tankers and storage facilities
for oil, gasoline, etc. He told me that every tanker they owned at the
time was parked on railroad sidings hold oil etc. while there were
"shortages" and prices were spiking. There was not one drop of capacity
anywhere to ship anything, which was causing lots of other issues, and
there was no capacity to store any more product. But their inventory of
tankers etc. was completely booked which was good for their profits.
Magically the "shortage" ended with high prices, and everyone was making
big money. Thanks, Jimmuh! BTW I think Warren Buffett is in that
business now... which makes one wonder why certain pipelines were delayed...
--FT
On 6/19/17 10:00 AM, Dan--- via Mercedes wrote:
Wow. Ford Fairmont. My brother had a two door Ford Fairmont, in green. Totally
forgot about it until I read this.
What a POS that car was....
-D
On Jun 19, 2017, at 9:57 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
"1982 was the first year for the all-new downsized Lincoln Continental, based on the
Ford Fox platform."
I knew that all the luxo-barges were being downsized in my high school days in
an effort to meet emissions and CAFE requirements, but I didn't know the
Continental was put on the Mustang/Fairmont platform. Is that true?
Mitch.
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
--
--FT
Winston Churchill:
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or
petty,
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the
enemy.”
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
