Re: RC: Re: Gas prices

[Lynn Kinsky <lkinsky@silcom.com>]

>At 08:44 AM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Saw your post on ridecamp and I would like you to consider these
>>thoughts:
>>
>>Do you realize that gas prices have not kept pace with inflation? I
>
>
>That's not the point. The point is that prices where I am have gone up over
>50% in LESS THAN ONE WEEK.  Actually more than that.  A week ago my husband
>could get gas for under a dollar a gallon.  Now it's $1.65---and that's the
>cheap stuff.
>
>Imagine if all of our other consumables did that?
>
>I don't care if gas were to cost $4 a gallon....that'd be fine with me.  If
>that is what it cost, that is what it costs.  The reason I complained is
>that the price has gone up substantially in such a short time.

Before,  the gasoline wholesalers were unloading their winter blend stock
at lower than normal prices -- Arco got below a dollar a gallon here.  Now
they have the spring/summer blend at spring/summer prices.

And we do have a major consumable that fluctuates wildly in price:  hay.
Just be grateful the government isn't putting a parasitic tax on hay like
they do on gasoline (at least $.50 a gallon of the gasoline cost is taxes)
--

Lynn Kinsky (Santa Ynez, CA)
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky



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