He was busy moderating this forum and you would have got an infraction for making a remark like that at the time.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Ain't that the truth. BTW brian, how does it feel to be a commoner?

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1984 300TD 1981 240D

There must be a lot of flies without wings walking around in your house.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

It would be too easy to just smash them instead of pulling their wings off!

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1984 300TD 1981 240D

(Victoria? [Hint:Not Her Late Britannic Majesty] )
[Kinda a "Play" on your screen Nom De Connard, Mr. fords]

(Or as some of the 'Ol Time Loiterers @ H+A in 94117 used to Opine:
"Brotha,How dat Karmic wheel do Spin when your Mark One ain't on it!")

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Yep, Ramadan was great............you hardly eat anything and live off the land.

The lack of a/c..........not so great.

All the benefits of a forum member and none of the BS associated with moderating.............and the pay is the same.

It's excellent.

What does ethanol have to do with milk prices? Corn used in ethanol production has made the price of this common commodity rise so that cattle feed prices have tripled and milk and dairy products have gone way up. Also, gummint subsidies to not produce milk have kept the prices artificially high. Thank the senators and congressmen from dairy producing states for that.

Milk on sale at the grocery store is known as a "loss leader". They we sell it below cost to get people in the store that will surely by other products.

Oh well, two liters of a nice vodka was only 35 bucks in the duty free shop at the airport.

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Dave
Pawleys Island, SC

'79 300CD

hopefully this is just a 20 yr cycle.but at 30 yrs.in the early 80's they used corn for gasohol,basically just a different name for ethanol. when the price of land took a nosedive gasohol pretty much disappeared overnite.and with farmland here in n.w. iowa selling for 12k an acre last week.i think it's time for it to take a crap.

Yep, the people pushing ethanol as "clean" energy and the corn economy (high-fructose corn poison, anyone?) in general should be hanged for treason.

Care for a 'white russian'?

Dairy prices have been going up for a long time, its not inflation.

Butter and ice cream, and cheese, are way up. About 2 years ago Land O lakes stopped putting milkfat in their cheese and now uses oil and powdered milk instead.


Thanks to the droughts in Texas expect more increases over the next 6 months.

I buy organic milk, $5 for half a gallon.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

The only non-fat milk I can stand usually costs $4.95 here in DC suburbs.
Smart Balance w/omega 3's in the 1/2 gallon size is double the price of store brand 2%, but I use it only on cereal, so I can stomach the $$ (unlike "normal" skim, which I detest)

Well gottta love those prices. Four litres of milk here cost 7.75. 4.54 litres to an american gallon. Average is four dollars for two litres.

Everytime we drop into the states two hundred miles away I always throw a few gallons of milk in the trunk on my way home.

Food prices have been ramping upward for most this year locally. The only saving grace is by and large food consumes a far smaller percentage of our income in north america than most places.

We are definatly in a period of inflation now. Utilities, property taxes etc are escalating. In fact almost everything. Industrial activity at best is just holding it's own. More infastructure projects locally than normal as well.

then fuel is looking cheap in comparison.

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