This is a great idea. Sign me up for a few hundred gallons. smaller stations could make it work but they would probably have to do much shorter terms. The smaller capacity would probably only work for 6 months or so since you'd probably have a small group of users in the beginning. But once you get to ,say 30% of your customers (remember, I am no economist so i have no idea what the actual nmbers would have to be)buying gas at cheaper than current prices you would start losing money. The first aspect of Petrowski's program would allow consumers to buy prepaid cards for a certain amount of gasoline at a set price. If the price at the pump rises, the card holder would still pay the lower price they locked in with their prepaid card.
A working version of the plan is here.
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This is what the airlines have been doing. The problem I see with this is that some Do-gooder will complain that only people with credit cards are able to join: they will scream 'discrimination'
Check out this link to the letter that the Iran leader sent to Bush.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011362.php
Russ
Who is Adam Kidron, the man behind "Nuestro Himno?"
Steve Sailer
When I first heard of the Spanish rewrite travesty of the "Star-Spangled Banner" that has been released in time for the May Day pro-illegal immigration rallies, I said, "Well, that at least is more financially enterprising than anything you normally see from Mexicans in America, who have otherwise had so little impact on popular culture, despite their vast numbers."
But then I heard that it was created by record producer Adam Kidron. "That's funny," I thought, "Because 'Kidron' sure doesn't sound Spanish."
So, who is this guy?
Well, it turns out Adam Kidron is not Hispanic at all. Indeed, he's from a very interesting family. He was born in England, where his father, Michael Kidron, was a famous Marxist theoretician and his uncle, the late "Tony Cliff," [V-News: real name Yigael Gluckstein] was the leader of the largest Trotskyite party in Britain, the Socialist Workers Party or SWP.
Adam was a producer for a bunch of minor early 1980s New Wave musicians such as East German novelty act Nina Hagen, The Slits, Orchestre Rouge, and Scritti Politti. Many of the artists were leftwingers.
Here's something revealing from the website of an old anarcho-punk band called Zounds:
"In the process of recording the record, the band involved themselves with Adam Kidron who was given production credits although his job was more a glorified engineer.
Steve, 'We had a guy engineering called Adam Kidron, he was the millionaire son and heir of the Socialist publisher who owned Pluto Press. He was really funny and we were very naive and impressed by him. He talked us in to giving him producer royalties when we didn't even know what royalties were and we thought we were producing the album ourselves.... Adam hated guitars so we ended up with a far less powerful guitar sound than we would have liked. We were a guitar band after all.'"
To some people, being raised to want to overthrow capitalism seems to give them an excuse to behave like the worst kind of robber baron. Hey, don't blame me for what happened to these poor dumb guitarists' royalties, blame this rotten capitalist system, man! Come the Revolution, my true saintliness will finally manifest itself.
During the dot-com era, Kidron was a co-founder and CEO of the hip-hop website Urban Box Office Networks Inc., which went bankrupt in 2000 after hiring 300 employees, mostly marketing people. UrbanExpose.com wrote:
"After a year and a half of operation UBO has made approximately $150,000 dollars in revenue against nearly $50 million in spending."
Kidron has apparently now converted the remains of Urban Box Office into a Spanish-language record label selling reggaeton (Caribbean rap).
Adam's dad, the Marxist theoretician Michael Kidron, died in 2003, but it sounds like his old man would be proud of Adam's contribution to May Day 2006, "Nuestro Himno."
The Socialist Review began its obituary:
"Mike Kidron, who died last month, was probably the most important Marxist economist of his generation, although he never received the recognition he deserved from the academic Marxism of the 1970s and early 1980s."
Here is the conclusion to Wikipedia's article on Michael Kidron:
"Kidron remained a Marxist committed to changing the world and therefore understood the necessity of developing a theoretical understanding of how the world works precisely in order to change it. His final article appeared in the Autumn 2002 issue of the International Socialism Journal on The Decline of Capitalism, and spoke of a sure and certain knowledge that another world is not just possible but demanded. As ever, the revolutionary role of the working class in the core countries of capitalism was reasserted and the goal of a communist society reaffirmed."
Michael Kidron offended pacifist leftists by advocating street violence.
Full article
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0604263051192849.htm
Get ready for the attack on Iran.
Russ
Mike Kidron is finally the best kind of dumbocrat. I wonder when the libs will begin referring to non-party members as counterliberals.
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