For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Michael Lynch - Disputing Peak Oil
skeptik wrote:
The ultra rich have nothing to prove, and in general try to avoid attracting attention. (unless they happen to be car fanatics like Bill Gates) What, for instance, does Warren Buffett drive? As of March this year, a 2001 Lincoln Town Car. Very comfortable, very boring - the sort of car nobody would turn an eye at.
Warren's definitely an exception to the rule:
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Some billionaires don't even bother to flaunt their wealth. For instance, Berkshire Hathaway's (nyse: BRK.A - news - people ) Warren Buffett--with a net worth of $36 billion--famously lives in the same home in Omaha, Nebr., that he bought in 1958 for $31,500. Although his home isn't shabby, the Happy Hollow neighborhood where he lives isn't even the ritziest in Omaha.
"You can probably find a fixer-upper in that neighborhood for about $175,000," says Christie Brandt, a real estate agent at DEEB Real Estate in Omaha. "It's a pricey area, but it's not the most expensive. Buffett's house is a lot like Warren--it's very conservative and it's impeccably maintained." (Buffett recently took a spot on our Best-Dressed Billionaires list.)
Glad to see someone's concerned about staying on topic. Have you chewed 'em out at the offshore drilling thread, Tony? _________________ Cogito, ergo non satis bibivi
I'm just gonna find a cash machine.
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