AMEN. Thank you SUSAN and DAYTON.
Ree Gurley in Silver Spring, MD - 78 Spit FM73070U O
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From: dayton carpenter <djcarpen@hotmail.com>
To: susan@bearcom.com <susan@bearcom.com>; spitfires@autox.team.net
<spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 19:44 PM
Subject: Re: Gas boycott and other irrelevant topics
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>Thank You SUSAN!
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>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.
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>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!
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>Dayton
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>>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
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>>Hey ya'll,
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>>Before you get so all-fired crazy about these gas-outs, remember two
>>things:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>(I'm not an opinionated person -- I just play one in real life! ;)
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>>Just my two cents (plus another 37 cents for state and local taxes and
>>54 cents in regulatory fees).
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>>Keep Triumphing,
>>Susan :)
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