-----Original Message----- From: seek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Price of gasoline increase = price of vinyl increase. Vinyl = fossil fuels = dinosaurs = doomed. Sad, but true. Seek *** I cadged the below from Wikipedia on poly vinyl chloride (PVC) essential component of vinyl records. Apparently, vinyl is bad for your health as well as your wallet (although the link is not so clear-cut.) "Alternative plasticizers are being developed but these alternatives remain significantly more expensive and their technical performance is sometimes not as good as for phthalates. It is also unclear whether these alternatives really represent a reduction in health risk." So the price of records is not likely to stop edging up for a while, and the alternatives aren't cheaper to make, so when crude oil gets too expensive and the alternatives kick-in, the prices mightn't come down on that basis. Hurrah. Ken
