Re: gas prices

[Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>]

I'm quite familiar with what you say, as I used to live in Michigan.  
That state produces only about 10% of its consumer needs, the other 90% 
coming from Louisiana-Texas-Oklahoma oil producers (I think there's also 
one refinery near Finlay, OH, owned by the Marathon Oil Co.).   So, 
trucking gasoline about 1200 miles or so to Michigan must cost a buck or 
two, as it does to southern Idaho and to the tri-cities area, where gas 
sells for 15-20 cents less than here, but not so cheap as in Michigan. 
Yet, gas pumps in Moscow-Pullman don't seem to know that fact! It's like 
cows crossing onto a posted "NO TRESPASSING" zone -- the poor cows can't 
read, say the farmers. Well, I guess pumps can't read either! Where do we 
go from here? One visionary advocates going to the attorneys general and 
to media investigative reporters.Another suggests a possible co-op 
approach. Whatta ya think, pilgrims? Who really speaks for the consumer 
when business practices appear to be very unfair?  It's your money, maybe 
it's your call. 

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William K. Medlin
Dev-plan associates
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