Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:26:11 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <20000304132611.B48777@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000304091423.040b5590@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:20:09AM -0700 References: <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> <4.2.2.20000304091423.040b5590@localhost>
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:20:09AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:42 PM 3/3/2000 , Mark Newton wrote: > > >Our prices are held *up* by the fact that over 50% of them constitute > >State and Federal taxes. > > Same in the US and Europe. Driving is a sin that must be taxed, y'know. Driving is an activity that incurrs a cost on society, building roads, regular maintainance, salter, snow plows, maintainace to fix the damage the snow plows did, etc. > This week, I traveled from Wyoming to California and discovered that > gas prices were 25% higher in the Golden State than in the Cowboy > State. Why? Because Californians "tax" themselves by requiring that > everyone buy fuel with high concentrations of MTBE, an oxygenating agent. > MTBE was supposed to reduce pollution, but in fact is a worse pollutant > than oxides of nitrogen ever were. However, since only California > refineries make gas with a high enough concentration of MTBE, Californians > are locked into buying from these few sources and the price goes up. > WAY up. Los Angeles will have $2.50 gas this summer. Yet the number of f*cking SUVs and other gas-guzzling vehicles in the region will continue to rise as will the miles driven per vehicle. > It's the same the whole world over. Energy policies and fuel costs aren't > driven by markets or even common sense. They are controlled by big > cartels, big government, and politics. Just like everything else. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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