[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Fw: April 30 - Don't buy GAS



My parents live in Northern CA (3 miles from Oregon border), and gas there
is $2.28/gallon!

Jon


T Berk wrote:

> This whole thing is based on a guy here in the SF Bay Area.  We just
> went from about $1.35-$1.50 for Super Unleaded to $1.99 in about 2
> days.  You know they'd just love to break the US$2.00 barrier but each
> of the players are afraid to be the 1st one to do so.
>
> Sticker shock has people b*tchen about how it's just speculators and the
> Oil Companies who are artificially raising the price in order to gouge
> the public.  The blame has been explained away as two recent refinery
> accidents that have cut production, OPEC at play again, and the
> alignment of the planets.  Phooey.
>
> In a way we are a captive audience, we are going to buy it anyway, maybe
> less at 1st, but people around here are too attached to cars and have
> few viable alternatives.
>
> To our local credit Mass Transit is recently reasserting itself with
> extensions to a Light Rail system in Silicon Valley, the Caltrain
> commuter system that serves SF to SJ and is haggling over converting
> from Diesel to Electric, and car pool lanes (despite people seeing them
> as not as useful as they might have wanted- you've got to leave your own
> car at home, at least sometimes, for it to work.)
>
> For my part I'll be back on the Train & Bike now that the weather has
> Sprung again. I don't really like wearing out my Scirocco stuck in rush
> hour traffic anyway.
>
> A price increase of 33% in 48 hours was what prompted this guy to send
> out the email, yes we will just get a fillup on Thursday before, but we
> know that. The point I think is to cause a blip on the screen, maybe
> this could be leveraged when the rubber meets the road, who knows.
>
> All it might serve to do is vent some frustration. Might be a good
> thing.
>
> TBerk
> I was going to mention this thing earlier but I've been busy pulling
> shark teeth out of my butt.  :P
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" to majordomo@scirocco.org.
> If you experience other problems, email: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org


--
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" to majordomo@scirocco.org.
If you experience other problems, email: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org