From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 4 10:22: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9416537B80F; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA48986; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:26:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:26:11 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Brett Glass Cc: Mark Newton , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koster, K.J." , "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" , Wes Peters Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <20000304132611.B48777@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000304091423.040b5590@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:20:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-hackers" in the body of the message