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Chris S.

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Avg. Fuel Prices
Orlando, FL 6/19/00

Chevron
Regular: $1.62
Plus: $1.72
Premium: $1.80

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Everyone,

I invite you to post the average price of fuel in your area.

I know this isn’t exactly khukri related, but I think we’re ALL getting screwed--some of
us more than others. Since we’re scattered across the country, knowing what we’re all
paying will be a tremendous leverage point in asking our elected representatives to get to
the bottom of what’s really going on here.

If you’re still upset that I posted this, consider this:
The hike in fuel costs (between now and a year ago) is ‘almost’ equal to the cost of one
new khukri every six weeks**.

Chris S.
Orlando

**Given a commuter consumption of: 25 gallons per week X 4 weeks X .60 avg. increase

I used 25 gallons because I drive an old GMC Jimmy, my city usage is actually a little
higher, but you get my point.


 
Chris we are just about the same here in Reno. Within pennies. Jumps up and down with the weather, it seems.

And it has everything to do with khukuris. If we spend all our money buying gas how can we buy khukuris?

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
I would love it if gas were $1.72. Over here in the Toledo area it's $2.00. I was just in Cleveland today and it's the same story over there.
Matthew

 
And the big oil companies are posting huge profits. Texaco is leading the way with a 473 percent increase. Between big business and big government, the average citizen doesn't have a chance. And remember, big government is made up of the very same folks who are attempting to deprive us of our right to bear arms. Does anyone else see where all this is leading? Think about it: we're getting screwed more and more by big government, and at the very same time our means of grassroots resistance is being taken away from us by those very same people. Which all leads me to believe that the worst is yet to come. I really believe that things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better. As the people lose the will and means to resist, big government and big business (they're one and the same) will come down on us increasingly harder.
 
Please don't jump on me too hard, but before you complain about gas prices remember two things:

1. Some companies are not taking advantage of the raise to screw the customer -- the company my father works for has reduced their margin from twenty cents a gallon to eleven (ten is the break-even point, figuring their costs).

2. We still pay less for gas than any other civilized country.

Again, this is not a combative statement, just my two cents.
 

Last month, Congress voted against raising CAFE.

CAFE (An acronym which I forget at the moment--sorry)are the MPG minimums set for new vehicles coming out of Detroit.
Not more than two weeks after the vote, Carol Browner (director of the EPA), mandatesd reformulated fuel
for high pollution cities across the USA.
I love clean air and water as much asaanyone,but Carol's 'standards' were totally incredulous!

I'm totally amazed nobody has put 2-and-2 together.

It's also amazing that nobody has told us just how much cleaner this reformulated fuel is--you can already guess the difference is minimal, can't you?

Plus, the formulation is patented, so a large part of the increase goes to pay the patent owner.

This morning I hear something I didn't know...the magic fuel reformulation primarily uses methanol (corn).
We grow so much corn (in the mid-west)that it rots in silos and we pay some farmers not to grow any at all.

Our stupid news media: "Could high fuel prices be gouging by greedy gas station owners? See our investigation tonight on Newschannel Seven!"

My opinion: "No, we're taking it up the whazooo!"

This is why I posted this, guys...

Chris S.
Orlando

PS--Bill, you are as wise as Yangdu is lovely.


 
Thank you , Bill Clinton, Al Gore, et yeck!
The U.S. saves the riches of the sheiks, does the NAFTA thing, and ignores OPEC's squeeze. Heck of a way to run a super power.
Where's T.R. and R.R. when we need them.

Scott
 
Anybody here besides me who can remember when gas was 12 cents per gallon? And, I remember I could fill up my new 1960 Olds 88 convertible for maybe 3 bucks. Drove it from Wichita to San Diego for a fuel cost of $35. And it was a 4,400 pound gas hog.

What happened?

And thanks for high compliment, Chris.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
Tom, one would think you lived in Canada.

Regular

1.98 in US dollars/US Gallon
2.96 in Canadian dollar/US Gallon

I think Cliff (Newfoundland, Canada) will have the highest gas prices.

I don't know if gas prices increases are due to OPEC or new reduced sulfur regulations. If it is reduced sulfur, the oil companies may not be making much more money. Just the mark up for reducing the sulfur content. If it is due to OPEC (reduced production) the domestic oil producers are making a lot of money. The oil producer's expense has not increased just the price that the market will bear.


Will



[This message has been edited by Will Kwan (edited 06-20-2000).]
 
How about in excess of $4.50/gallon? That's what we pay here (and we're supposed to be self-sufficient in gas, so we can't blame some Arab. Of that $4.50, over four bucks a gallon goes straight to the Government)

You guys don't know how lucky you are.
 
But then, doesn't England tax you if you want to watch television? Silly Limeys
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(That outta get Coronach nice and lively!)

When my friend was living in Saudi, it would have been more expensive to fill his gas tank with CocaCola than petrol.

I'm not sure which is worse, being held by the short hairs by your government or by OPEC
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Recieved this in email today:

Starting on Tuesday, August 1st 2000,
BOYCOTT THE FORECOURT PUMPS ON THE 1ST OF EVERY MONTH UNTIL THE
GOVERNMENT ACTS AND CUTS THE TAX.


UK, you are taxed at 614% on your petrol - ACT NOW
Please read this e-mail, and pass it on to anyone who you think
may be interested. This is very important!

Fact 1
When the petrol price was hiked in America last year, that's precisely
what they did. Nobody bought petrol for a day. The loss of revenue was
crippling for some of the big players. They rallied round and forced
the prices down again.

Fact 2
If you live in the UK, you are taxed at 614% on your petrol. Petrol is
now approaching ?0.90 per litre. That's 4.10pounds a gallon. For every
50pound fill-up, you're just giving the government 43 pound out of
your own pocket.

Fact 3
For the average family, a 1p increase per litre in the cost of fuel
means an extra 100 pound a year out of their pocket. Work it out for
yourself. In the weeks leading up to mid June, you all took a salary
cut of around 700 pound a year.

Fact 4
Fuel duty has little to do with the environment. Leaded petrol was
supposedly taxed highly for environmental reasons. Why then, when it
was replaced with LRP did the price not come down? Diesel fuel is
cheaper, yet pollutes more by producing carcinogens and particulates.
LPG is the cleanest fuel there is but you don't see the government
promoting that do you?

Fact 5
38billion pound is sucked out of motorist's pockets each year in tax.
You buy the planet's most expensive petrol, but do you see that money
going back into the roads? No you do not. A recent study pointed out
that most of Britain's roads are up to 15 years beyond their
structural refurbishment date.

Fact 6
Freight companies are suffering - so is our trade with the EU. When a
haulage company has to fill it's tanks with diesel taxed at such a
ridiculous rate, it's running costs become so expensive that companies
take their business to haulage firms based on the continent. That in
turn means a loss of income for our country.

Fact 7
Public transport is not an option.
Buses and coaches become more expensive again because of the
underlying cost of running them. The privatised rail and bus companies
continue to slash services and close branch routes because running
them is not "cost effective." i.e. the shareholders aren't getting their
dividends. And the government are doing nothing about it. Rail
companies have been under performing and missing targets as stipulated
by their contracts ever since privatisation. Yet they're all still in
business.
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Llamedos; thanks for an interesting post.

Boycotting the pumps, however, will solve nothing. It won't affect the gas companies, let alone the government. It'll just increase the pressure on the gas stations, particularly the small, privately-owned outfits who are already being squeezed to death by cut-throat price wars, the greed of the gas companies and the insane, suicidal attitude of the goverment.

There's very little you can do about this situation; but you can

(a) Write to your MP

(b) Make sure you vote to get rid of Blair and his posse of dangerous clowns at the next election.

Or you could emigrate. I'm told Nevada is a pretty neat place to live...
 
To make it more interesting is that in most of Nevada ( and I think in California ) the clean air additive is mandated during cold weather in most areas to reduce polution. Now they are trying to get Tahoe exempted from the mandate because the additive is showing up in well beyond unhealthful levels in drinking water wells at the South Shore.

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John Moses designed it, I trust it, and that settles it.


Himalayan Imports Website
 
Those chain letters advocating one-day gas boycotts aren't exactly urban legend chain letters, but they sure have that feel to them. Let's all fill up our tanks on July 31st and August 2nd and not buy any gas on August 1st -- then the oil companies will lose money! Anybody who'd believe that would believe the Gang Initiation Murders or even the Kidney Thieves....

If we all decided to boycott our cars and not drive them for a day that would hurt the oil companies. Nobody ever suggests that, though.

Incidentally, speaking of urban legends, I got a variant of the AIDS-Infected Needles meme the other day. This time it's not pay phone coin returns or movie theater seats -- it's gas pump handles. It's not hard to see why somebody made up that variant now in particular.

-Cougar :{)
 
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