Re: Fw: April 30 - Don't buy GAS - the Local Angle

["Jonathan Miles" <jem@clara.co.uk>]

Just to put these prices into perspective. Here in the UK we pay about 80
pence per litre for Super Unleaded.  We're moving towards a quid a Litre for
Christ's sake!!!
Don't know what that is in $ per Gallon but it's a lot.  80% of this is tax
imposed by the anti-car bastards that we have in government here.

Jonathan
'90 Scirocco GTII

-----Original Message-----
From: T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
To: Michael Friesen <mfriesen@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: 13 April 1999 08:08
Subject: Re: Fw: April 30 - Don't buy GAS - the Local Angle


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>This whole thing is based on a guy here in the SF Bay Area.  We just
>went from about $1.35-$1.50 for Super Unleaded to $1.99 in about 2
>days.  You know they'd just love to break the US$2.00 barrier but each
>of the players are afraid to be the 1st one to do so.
>
>Sticker shock has people b*tchen about how it's just speculators and the
>Oil Companies who are artificially raising the price in order to gouge
>the public.  The blame has been explained away as two recent refinery
>accidents that have cut production, OPEC at play again, and the
>alignment of the planets.  Phooey.
>
>In a way we are a captive audience, we are going to buy it anyway, maybe
>less at 1st, but people around here are too attached to cars and have
>few viable alternatives.
>
>To our local credit Mass Transit is recently reasserting itself with
>extensions to a Light Rail system in Silicon Valley, the Caltrain
>commuter system that serves SF to SJ and is haggling over converting
>from Diesel to Electric, and car pool lanes (despite people seeing them
>as not as useful as they might have wanted- you've got to leave your own
>car at home, at least sometimes, for it to work.)
>
>For my part I'll be back on the Train & Bike now that the weather has
>Sprung again. I don't really like wearing out my Scirocco stuck in rush
>hour traffic anyway.
>
>A price increase of 33% in 48 hours was what prompted this guy to send
>out the email, yes we will just get a fillup on Thursday before, but we
>know that. The point I think is to cause a blip on the screen, maybe
>this could be leveraged when the rubber meets the road, who knows.
>
>All it might serve to do is vent some frustration. Might be a good
>thing.
>
>TBerk
>I was going to mention this thing earlier but I've been busy pulling
>shark teeth out of my butt.  :P
>
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