Re: Fw: FW: GAS is expensive?

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

>So You Think A Gallon of Gasoline Is Expensive?
Really interesting "comparisons", but as you well know, the factors of 
recovery, shipping, refining and delivery to the pumps are costs that 
need to be figured in -- not just the final consumer prices we pay.  
Otherwise, we could expect wholesalers/retailers to charge just what they 
please plus what the market will bear -- factors which are sometimes 
quite elastic, at the consumers' expense. Thanks for the neat ride. On 
another note, I'd be willing to pay more for gasoline and oil if the 
markups went to environmental needs; as for hiway needs, the Feds. have a 
Federal Hiway Fund which has been increased one or twice by every 
president beginning with Reagan, the so-called "non-tax" president. But 
each Administration slips in special needs taxes every time. Consumers 
can't win in that game.   Ken M.

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