X-Message-Number: 24648 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Randall Burns <> Subject: re: oil crisis The thing that compounds the oil crisis: Disposable income(i.e. after taxes, housing, transportation and insurance) has been declining in the US for over 30 years--to the point that two income families now have the disposable income one income families did 30 years ago. IMHO what this is largely related to: frontier societies tend to be high wage societies--and the social institutions in the US were created as part of a frontier society. Gasoline prices are I would agree a small part of the phenomena here-but oil tends to be a centrally controlled commodity associated with various international interests. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24648