Re: Fuel Prices... again...

If you are contending that the "taxing" agency(s) are those that collect 
gas taxes, don't expect any relief there.  In fact gas tax collections 
are way down when viewed from a historical and actual perspective.

Traffic counts are down in most areas and when coupled with more 
economical cars, funding for highways (new and maintenance) is dropping.

OTOH, gas price is governed by hysteria (speculation) and manipulation 
by big oil. For example, last year when oil prices fell below $50 per 
barrel, they managed to manipulate gas prices upward to around $3 per 
gal and this year even with the high oil prices, claims of shortages are 
just not true.  There is plenty of product but again, manipulation is 
taking place.

But, this is nothing new, right?

JT



jimandkathiekrise wrote:

> And in spite of the hard****ps imposed by the fuel prices, NOT ONE taxing

> agency, has offered to back down on taxes.
> 
> Seems that the oil companies are not the only greedy organizations about

> these days.
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> "Dale J." <ramboj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'the_obvious'.net> wrote in message 
> news:4bednYHsNJnzrGTanZ2dnUVZ_hmtnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Gas here just went up the other day to $1.239 per liter (that's $4.69
per 
>>US gallon or $5.63 per Imperial gallon).  WTF?!?   If the Auto industry 
>>had kept up with progress and R&D like the Computer industry has we
would 
>>all be driving 500 HP cars that get 80 MPG at 80 mPH.  But the
government 
>>and big oil won't let that happen now, will they...
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