Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:53:41 -0500
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From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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Subject: Re: Gas went up $0.13 a gal overnight what's up?
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John nails it home. There is no reason to "fear" $3.50-$5.50 fuel
prices.
*If* fuel prices skyrocket in our lifetime (which is very likely), many
things will change, but that is good. There are many things that *need*
to change.
The USA could use a REAL high-speed rail network. We could use vehicles
that get 100mpg and produce fewer emissions. We could use a
manufacturing employment in our region. I'd like to see fields of
vegetables grown near my home, as was the case up until about 1960 (my
town was one of the East Coast's largest produce markets). I'd like to
be able to take a trolley/tram to the neighboring towns (as one once
could). Many of these things are not cost-competitive today, but would
become wonderfully necessary if fuel were $5.50.
Think about how much more you would treasure your highway vacations,
too!
Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of John Rodgers
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:55 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Gas went up $0.13 a gal overnight what's up?
Frank Condelli wrote:
> In a message dated 3/19/2002 12:38:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> > Re: Gas went up $0.13 a gal overnight what's up?
> >
> Gas prices are absurd ! On my recent trip to Daytona I saw
prices
> from $1.12 to $1.35 sometimes next to one another ! Go figure !!
They are absurd. Around the Birmingham area it's the same way. Currently
ranging from $1.19.9 to $1.30.9. Regular has gone from $0.96.9 to
$1.19.9 in less than two weeks at my favorite fuel stop.
IMHO there is no good reason for the price increases, especially with
the winter not being near as harsh as the year before. There is plenty
of oil available at present. It's just the oil companies
playing their annual " we hope the public is going to travel a lot this
summer and make us lots of money" game. Yes, I know there is concern
over events in the Mid- East. But I don't think the oil
markets as yet have anything to really worry about yet.
I do agree with Bulley ..... if the fuel prices go the route of those in
Europe and some other nations, We are going to suffer while our economy
adjusts. And as a consequence there will be major
economic changes here in the US. And since what that shake-out will be
like is unknowable - it's scarey. No doubt many things we see everyday
will simply disappear and be come history, and many
businesses will fail. But there may be blessings as well. Walmart sells
stuff as cheap as it does ... and the Dumb public goes for that bottom
dollar --- because it can be bought so cheap overseas
and shipped so cheap to America. Add huge shipping costs onto stuff in
Walmart, and you will see people's buying patterns change. It may well
bring back local manufacturing.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver