So, gas and cars don't go together? Is that what you're saying? Next I'll be
hearing that smog regs and junker laws haven't anything to do with cars
either, eh?
Laura
Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
----- Original Message -----
From: dayton carpenter <djcarpen@hotmail.com>
To: <susan@bearcom.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: Gas boycott and other irrelevant topics
>
>
> Thank You SUSAN!
>
> I don't think this is the forum for talking about gas prices. It seems
that
> a few people like to continually ramble on about this and other irrelevant
> topics. I have seen where they have emailed to each other separately then
> cc'ed this list.
>
> Please Keep it to yourselves or get into a consumer chat room. In the
past
> week I must have seen over 100 messages related to gas prices. Don't vent
> here. Go do something about it!
>
> Dayton
>
> >From: Susan Hensley <susan@bearcom.com>
> >Reply-To: Susan Hensley <susan@bearcom.com>
> >To: Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Gas boycott
> >Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:59:15 -0600
> >
> >Hey ya'll,
> >
> >Before you get so all-fired crazy about these gas-outs, remember two
> >things:
> >
> >1) The people you are first affecting (and hurting) with this are
> >Americans, and yourselves. When you refuse to buy gas for a certain
> >length of time, that keeps money out of the service stations' gasoline
> >pockets, so they therefore mark prices up (even more) on other things to
> >recover those losses, hurting you, the American consumer. Don't forget
> >service station owners are American citizens, and they need to eat and
> >pay their bills just like the rest of us do.
> >
> >2) "Gas-Outs" here do not affect OPEC or the cartels since everyone buys
> >about the same amount of gas, just before and after the gas-out. Our
> >not buying gas here for 24 hours, or two or three days, won't bother
> >them in the least. A large chunk of the cost of our gas is taxes and
> >fees, *American* taxes and fees, and if those lose revenues, guess what
> >-- again they find other ways to recoup them, hurting you in the
> >process. Plus, OPEC and the cartels' business is *SO* big, a waver in
> >the American market will be like dropping a pebble into a lake.
> >
> >Gas prices are just something we have to live with. If you are so
> >worried about the price of gas, work on developing clean-air systems (to
> >lessen fees on gas for that reason), down-sizing government (to reduce
> >those taxes), and everything else we pay taxes and fees on when we buy a
> >gallon of gas.
> >
> >We go through this every year, ya'll. Those of us who have been on the
> >list a while have seen this topic come around each year with
> >regularity. Let's just move on, okay?
> >
> >(I'm not an opinionated person -- I just play one in real life! ;)
> >
> >Just my two cents (plus another 37 cents for state and local taxes and
> >54 cents in regulatory fees).
> >
> >Keep Triumphing,
> >Susan :)
>
>
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