"Tax and Spend" is how we get the roads that our lovely cars drive on. Or get towed on. I am delighted that there will be record spending on roads in our area in the next five years. I'm also glad I can help pay for it, since I really enjoy taking a long sweeper at an unsafe-for-a-non-Jensen speed. Oh, the tax also pays for the Cop that gives me the ticket. As for the prices of fuel, we pay about $1.70 US in northern California, but that is a pittance compared to across the pond. Happy to be here and driving, Tom G -----Original Message----- From: Bob Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 1:54 PM To: 'John McEwen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off-topic Miscellaneous Musings John: see below indented -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: Off-topic Miscellaneous Musings ......snip................ This is still too high seeing as how we make the stuff. There are 4 major oil refineries here in Edmonton and we are surrounded by producing oil fields. In fact there is a producing well within a mile of my home. We are also the terminus and refining point for the Athabaska Tar Sands synthetic crude which is produced about 250 miles NE of here. That doesn't seem to make any difference. Most of the price is tax and if government's propensity to tax and spend cannot be kept in check, the price of gasoline is an easy target. We should be much more worried about the price of our utilities. What are you paying for a megawatt hour of electricity and what are you paying for natural gas per thousand cu. ft.? Offhand I don't know but there is a hell of a fuss about electricity prices here in California. No new generating stations have been built in 30 years although the population has doubled and everybody has more electrical appliances. I will check so we can do some international comparisons. bob _______________________________________________________________________ This message comes to you by way of the Jensen-cars mailing list. Guidelines plus subscribe and unsubscribe info at: <http://www.british-steel.org/faq/jensen-cars.html> _______________________________________________________________________ This message comes to you by way of the Jensen-cars mailing list. Guidelines plus subscribe and unsubscribe info at: <http://www.british-steel.org/faq/jensen-cars.html>
