From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 5 8:28:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@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 C74F837BA32 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:28:50 -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 LAA62392; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:32:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:32:02 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mark Ovens Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <20000305113201.A62310@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200003041741.MAA15002@etinc.com> <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <4.2.2.20000304091423.040b5590@localhost> <200003041741.MAA15002@etinc.com> <200003041752.KAA09600@nomad.yogotech.com> <4.2.2.20000304133643.0417e100@localhost> <20000305114210.B668@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000305114210.B668@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:42:11AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:42:11AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 01:39:32PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > At 10:52 AM 3/4/2000 , Nate Williams wrote: > > > > >The reason gas is so expensive is CA is because a couple of refineries > > >blew up last year, and due to the monopolies shared by the gas > > >companies, there was no-one lef to take up the 'demand' when they quit > > >producing. > > > > > >Demand stayed the same, production was reduced, price goes up. Simple > > >economics.. > > > > Exactly. And the monopoly is government-granted because it mandated the > > special gas. California also has special and arbitrary requirements for > > milk which keep out-of-state vendors out and raise the price. > > > > Californians run their cars on milk? ;-) Water-burning engines. I _hope_ we don't go there. But it did occur to me (and I wasn't going to say anything) to wonder from where CA would import milk. I mean Wisconsin and New York are long truck rides. (Think of all of the gas. ;) I doubt Nevada and Arizona have big dairy potential. Maybe Oregon and Washington? Of course, agriculture has some of the most bizarre economic policy of them all, the classic being the gov't paying a producer _not_ to produce. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message