There's also an issue of local pricing and timing here. Gasoline hit more than $4 per gallon last year if you bought at certain stations at certain times during the panic around Phoenix last year. I don't know that we'll see a $3 average this coming year, but if the predictions of coming shortages have some merit, then maybe we'll see some noteworthy stories play out in certain regions, in particular.
Also, since it's a U.S. Presidential Election year, maybe there will be a tie-in with any of those stories (for example, if they were very extreme) and the election etory. I'd love to see the President's SUV business-ish-tax-break called into extended questioning, publicly, without let-up. *Ostensibly* this was to "promote jobs" and such in Detroit (though policy this came from a supposedly pro-Capitalistic group of people). So, there's not only the issue of the fact that the President's policies have gone away from reducing US Petroleum Import Dependencies, but they have also made a mockery (in my view) of what might have been better more rational more effective more sustainable pro-job-growth policies. *This* is the best this guy could do??? .....encourage the production (Charity-giving to Detroit by already deeply burdened taxpayers, who are deemed too stupid by policy-makers to understand that the bill will come eventually, if not during this Presidency, and if not in 2004 dollars) ....of high margin gas guzzling vehicles? Detroit makers have protested loudly, vociferously, when challenged by Environmentalists the last 20 years, that they'd like to tone down production of gas-guzzlers but their hands are tied by the first business principle of being responsive to demand for such vehicles, and yet here they are stating clearly that demand for the gas-guzzlers *isn't* sufficient to keep them afloat and they need therefor for Washington to have taxpayers bail them out by paying to artificially stimulate demand for those vehicles in particular. What utterly crappy insulting anti-taxypayer anti-common-sense logic. I hope Mr. Kerry calls this administration on some of it. MM On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:51:32 -0000, you wrote: >Gas will be hitting $3 soon, probably this year... > > > > >--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some recent USA Today articles. Overall, relatively speaking, I like >> their reporting on some of these issues: >> http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2004-02-25-gasprices_x.htm >> >> A quote: >> >> >"Average gasoline prices in California and Hawaii have topped $2 >for a gallon of unleaded regular, and Nevada is close at $1.968, AAA >said Wednesday. AAA said regular averaged $1.681 nationwide, up 7.9 >cents the last month. That's 5.6 cents less than the record average >of $1.737 reported last Aug. 30. EIA, using different data, lists the >record as $1.747 last Aug. 25." >> >> So, there are sometimes some discrepancies (though here they are >> small) in how the "national retail average" is calculated. >> >> Also of interest: >> >Gas would have to average $2.89 to surpass the inflation-adjusted >record of $1.417 in 1981. >> >> An article here about cost-benefit analysis for vehicle safety. I >> thought there was a lack of mention of how vehicles interact with >each >> other, and traffic engineering issues, and crowding issues, but >> anyway: >> http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2004-02-25-car-rules_x.htm >> >> Governor Schwarzenneger's "solution". Somehow seems very Teutonic >of >> him, this interest in Hydrogen. But more importantly, aside from >> that, I just think it's not all there: >> http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-02-26-hydrogen- >highway_x.htm >> >> I can say that I know that activists have tried to give input on a >> wide variety of other solutions, so he has either carefully >considered >> these solutions and set them aside, or simply blown them off. > > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
