Back in the '30s there was a consortium of companies which included GM
and some of the tire and petroleum products companies which went around
buying up rail and trolley lines in a number of major cities all around
the country, and then closing them down. This increased people's
relinace on autos and bus lines, which (you guessed it) lots of
petroleum and tires and were of course built by GM. Taken in to court
for anti-trust and lots of other violaions, they were found guilty and
fined... $5,000. I think GM's president at the time probably wrote a
personal check to cover it.
So, there are a lot of things which can be blamed on "...the idiots in
government..." but not this one (at least not /totally/).
Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA
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Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us wrote:
>
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> That's not what bothers me. It's the idiots in government that dismantled our
> rail systems and hobbled our transit agencies, so we're dependent on gas.
>Watch
> the price of foodstuffs and other necessities go way up in cost as gas goes
>up.
> Now that does hurt! Ever try to travel to another state to pick up roadster
> parts? Expensive, right? Shipping is gonna go up.
>
> As for me, I try not to worry about it. What can ya do? I'm enjoying the great
> gas mileage of my roadster (about 25 mpg) versus my van (16 mpg).
>
> Fred - So.SF
>
> __________________________ Reply Separator _____________________________
> >Subject: Re: Gas
> >Author: GOAVP@aol.com
> >Date: 4/5/99 8:07 PM
> >
> >It's funny that people complain so much about the price of gas, but they
> >don't mind when their neighbors house sold for $50 thousand over the asking
> >price, or that Yahoo is valued at more than the gross national product of 53%
> >of the worlds national econimies.
> >
> >Gas is cheap! What else can you still buy for only $1.75 a gallon?
> >
> >Peter van der Pas
> >
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