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echo: anything_goes
to: Cindi Marshall
from: George Pope
date: 2006-02-14 20:17:36
subject: Re: Is Anyone In Here?

CM> GP>Well, you're still doing better than we are here in Richmond, BC, where
CM> GP>last price I saw wa 98.9c/litre (almost $5.00/gallon, I believe!)
CM> GP>(almost $6 if your gallons hold 5 quarts, not 4!)
CM>
CM> Oh my goodness!!!!!!  I don't think anyone could afford
CM> those kinds of prices -
CM> at least not without either getting a major raise/promotion
CM> from their employer
CM> or else winning the lottery.

Or else cutting back to nearly zero their driving of their own vehicles, and
using bikes and/or transit instead!

CM> Right again, my friend.  But if my memory serves me correctly, we also have
CM> jump around the Independence Day holiday and the Labor Day
CM> holiday.  And, I've
CM> even seen them jump the week before Thanksgiving.

Yup, pretty much any time there's going to be a lot of people doing a lot of
driving, the companies jack the prices to cadge more bucks! :(

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
(aka Reverend George A. Pope)

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