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The government subsidizes gas prices for the public in all of those countries with absurdly low prices. Plus they use a higher ethanol blend with homegrown crops. E85 came from latin and south american countries that can make it cheaper than water. It takes more energy to create corn based ethanol, than you get out of the finished product. Unless you're using power from a completely renewable resource to drive the ethanol refinery, you're still wasting carbon based fuel.

The government subsidizes gas prices for the public in all of those countries with absurdly low prices.

Caracas....almost as fun to say...and REALLLLY cheap gas. Yeah, china and venezuela are right at the top of my list. I'd be happy living just off the coast of venezuela though.

It's bad enough in my FJ, I don't even want to think about how bad it would be in a big truck.

Robitaille was Yzerman/Gaborik type curve, huge mid curve

As bad as most of the THC stuff is, I'd still take a lot of them over the RM SWDs. DW is probably the only "major" company I'd put below THC when it comes to gloves over the last decade. At least Easton made a couple of gloves that were usable. They discontinued them, but at least they were available for a while.

Yes, virtually identical. They haven't made a decent glove in a looooong time.

they didn't have an oven at the show and never mentioned that the gloves should be baked. Most people don't buy gloves if they don't feel good right off the wall, I'm one of them.

Out of the box feel was awful on the new ones at the show, some of the worst gloves I've tried in the last five years.

The "R" series gloves were/are terrible, the only decent ones they have now are the 9950s.

I like them a lot more than the four rolls. I was shocked how good they were when I put them on at the Detroit show.

Open for review

P119

Nope, completely different.

They introduced that before Farrell came to market with his pads. Lightest flex is at the top.

After having it for a week or so, I really love my FJ. Surprisingly, I'm pulling a little over 20MPG in mixed city/highway driving. I was expecting to only get 20 on the highway.

It's the closest thing I can find to my old Amigo, a car I absolutely loved until the engine blew. It's larger than a jeep but not as ungainly as a four door and since I don't have kids, two doors will be fine. After some games my back and knees hurt, getting old sucks, and the ability to just sling the bag into the back and get in without climbing up or down is enticing. Plus I have two big dogs, I can lay the seat down and they have plenty of room to lay down or beat each other up. And a four wheel drive will come in handy when I move to Aruba. ;) The blue isn't my favorite color but it will do.

Just worked out a deal for my new ride while I was on the road. I pick it up next week.

Big fan of DT, I'll have to check into that.

Depends on how you wear the pads too. I would need 16s if I put them over the tongue, but I tuck them behind the tongue and use 15s.

Realistically, David might be in for the hardest working Summer of his life. I'm sure St. Louis will eave him with lots to work on. Strength training...other off ice stuff. Any word on if he'll be invited to play for Team Canada at the Worlds? With Hitchcock coaching? He might be the only coach worse than Murray when it comes to "developing" young talent.

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I think the same, Hook. If your not Ovechkin, why wear one? so you can play like him. <_< I don't mind the iridium or whatever it is he rocks. Plus he has the skills to back it up. But a major doosh rocked a mirrored in my old league and since then I've just not cared for mirrored visors. haha. i experienced the same thing. Some hot shot kid in roller (where full cage was required) tried to play with a half mirrored visor.. Needless to say we picked on him the whole game. and yea, Ovie can wear whatever he wants. 60+ goals gives you that right. ha A couple years ago one of the guys on my team wanted to buy a mirrored visor and I told him that I wouldn't sell it to him because the only guys in our area that had them were douchebags. A week or so later he came back and thanked me because he saw half a dozen guys with them over the week and they were all guys he hated.

First Impressions: Having worn Shift1 skates in the past, I already had a pretty good idea what to expect from the shift 2 (see shift 1 review). While I'm still not a huge fan of the appearance of the Kor skates, I don't have any problems with them either. Fit: They are wider than the shift 1, considerably deeper too. I did not have the forefoot problems withthe shift 2 that I experienced with the shift 1. This was a huge improvement for me. The first pair I tried on was so large that I could put them on the opposite feet without any problems before baking. The sizing is the same as the shift 1, but I did find that the Kor sizing "device" they used at the Vegas show was not accurate. As much as with any other skate, you really need to try them on. After baking the fit was much improved over the unbaked skate, as expected. The heel did cause me some problems, as you can see here. I had to bake the skates again and used the included foam wedge next to my heel to bump out the skate a bit. That resulted in a massive improvement and no more problems in that area for a couple weeks. I did have some problems again tonight, though not nearly as bad as the original blister. I believe that something like a thin layer of memory foam in certain areas would prevent problems like this. Protection: Again, this is one of Kors strengths. I have blocked some pretty heavy shots and have never felt anything. I could go on and on, but it would just be repeating the fact that these things are tanks. If you block a lot of shots or have had foot injuries, You should seriously consider picking up a pair of Kors. Performance: Always a nebulous concept, I haven't had any problems with the skates on the ice. More than anything, a product shouldn't hinder you in any way or even make you think about it on the ice. I don't think about these skates at all during a game, blister games aside. I never have to worry if the shot coming at me is going to hurt, never have to consider if I can hold a turn at speed and most importantly, never once have I thought that I could have gotten to a loose puck or piece of open ice if only I had been wearing my old skates. Skate performance is allowing you to perform to the best of your abilities, these skates do that for me.

Way to come in and stick up for MacDonald I'm trying to figure out why in the hell Kariya is getting so much ice time given the fact that he has been playing so poorly.