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Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.78
Date: Saturday, February 6, 1999, at 17:39:35

I think I've discovered a plot.
Gasoline prices are lower than they've been since 1973. If you adjust for inflation, they are lower than they have EVER been. I filled up in Georgia the other day at 70.9 per gallon. I always fill up in Georgia just before crossing back into Tennessee, because they have a lower tax than we do. Around here you can't find it lower than 79.9, but that's still dirt cheap. I wish I could get a gallon of milk that cheap. You can't even buy a gallon of bottled drinking water for the price of a gallon of gas.
Now about that plot. "They" have lowered the price of gasoline so that people will buy more of those Big Gas-Hog Cars, Sport Utility Vehicles, and Mini-Vans. "They" will keep prices down until such vehicles dominate the interstate traffic scene. (It won't be long now.) Then "they" will jack the price up to where it was when the plot was first hatched, or even higher. Then "they" will sit back and watch profits zoom. What are you going to do? Drive less? Take your biz elsewhere? Trade your monster for a Tercel? Write your congressman? Forget it -- you've been had.
Oh, did I mention that I have some bicycles for sale?
-from the twisted mind

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