++ 04/03/00 13:26 -0500 - Crist J. Clark:
> 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.
A cost that is not fully realized in the US.
> > This week, I traveled from Wyo
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
>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 suppos
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.
This week, I traveled from Wyoming to California and discovered that
gas prices w
Mark Newton wrote:
> > Fourth, I'm paying $1.48/gal right now, and I want the price to go
> > DOWN, not UP.
>
> I'm paying A$0.83c/L right now, which is roughly A$3.73/gal, which is
> roughly US$2.76. That means the US price of petroleum can rise by almost
> 100% and people still still drive
On Saturday, 4 March 2000 at 10:12:13 +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:56:08AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
>
>> "Koster, K.J." wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, those Americans. :-)
>>> Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands,
>>> times 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:56:08AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> "Koster, K.J." wrote:
>
> > Oh, those Americans. :-)
> > Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands,
> > times 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands.
> > Everyone in the Netherland
"Koster, K.J." wrote:
>
> Oh, those Americans. :-)
>
> Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands, times
> 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands.
>
> Everyone in the Netherlands drives cars; everyone thinks gas is expensive.
> This means that the
Oh, those Americans. :-)
Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands, times
4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands.
Everyone in the Netherlands drives cars; everyone thinks gas is expensive.
This means that the gas prices in the US can go up 440% and
Subject: Fw: Great American Gas Out
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Anytime we can stick it to them it's a good day. Last year on April
30,1999, a gas out was staged across Canada and the U.S. to
bring the price of gas down, and it worked. It's
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