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Running on Empty (Jackson Browne, 1977)

  Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
  Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
  In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-on-one
  I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

    Running on-running on empty
    Running on-running blind
    Running on-running into the sun
    But I'm running behind

  Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
  Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
  In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
  I don't know when that road turned into the road I'm on

    Running on-running on empty
    Running on-running blind
    Running on-running into the sun
    But I'm running behind

  Everyone I know, everywhere I go
  People need some reason to believe
  I don't know about anyone but me
  If it takes all night, that'll be all right
  If I can get you to smile before I leave

  Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
  I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
  I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
  Looking into their eyes I see them running too

    Running on-running on empty
    Running on-running blind
    Running on-running into the sun
    But I'm running behind

  Honey you really tempt me
  You know the way you look so kind
  I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
  You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
  Running into the sun but I'm running behind
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 v04.05
[ This way to the egress! ]
 
Are you out of gas?
Yet another way we are running on empty: I went to the local jiffy oil change place after work today (ca. 16:30, Friday, 13May05). No line! Oh, boy! This must be a time when few persons come to get their oil changed.... Wrong! The attendant says he'll have to see if he has my size oil filter in stock, because they are out of a lot of filter sizes -- he says he hopes thay will have more tomorrow. Well, they do have my filter size, and I'm in and out of the empty place in record time. But the vehicle that pulled in right behind me got sent away because they did *not* have that vehicle's filter in stock.
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[ ]The clerk said this never used to happen. I asked if the company was trying to reduce inventory [Yes]. It never really struck me before that: The currently highly-touted "Just in time" mode of inventory management is just another way America is: RUNNING ON EMPTY.
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