And I can remember paying .05 cents a gallon for kerosene, .11 cents a
gallon
for white gas, .15 cents for regular and .17 cents for ethyl per gallon. I
also remember a gallon of milk was .15 cents and a Milky Way candy bar sold
for a nickle.

No one makes you ride or drive a fuel burning vehicle, this world got along
for many, many years without such things and all of us can do it now.
Users of vehicles choose to do so and for no other reason.

The is no cabal setting the price of fuel in the US, no oil companies
gouging the public. The price of fuel is regulated by the stock
market based on supply and demand and nothing else. If you do
not like the price fuel quit purchasing it. The idea of boycotting
oil companies is stupid for it will only lead to higher prices. One
of the main reasons of high costs now is that the push to increase
milage per gallon caused consumption to drop and OPEC to cut
production and resulting price per barrel increase.

You cannot circumvent the the primary basis of supply and
demand overall. All an individual can do is not purchase the product
and that is shoveling sand against the tide. Whale oil was cheap
when people were using it - try to purchase some of it now.

Don't piss about the price of living. I would like to live back in the
1930's with my salary of today but it just ain't going to happen.
If the price of fuel bothers you then you have a hell of a lot of
other problems to content with that are far more important.

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"coldiron" <coldiron@hominyppc.net> wrote in message
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[snip]

Amazing, so the USA actually cut down on their annual comsumption?
I guess less oil is imported now than before!
Less demand, higher prices? Right?
C'mon.
:-)

"Buffalo" <eric(nospam)@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
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It all comes down to one thing: CORPORATE GREED!

"GuitarMan" <usa@yourface.com> wrote in message
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Yes, indeed.
:-)

If the average American male would give up his immature macho image and buy
a hybrid instead of the shiny gas guzzler he thinks he needs to impress the
ladies, we could live with the price of gas and hurt the oil barons where
they live at the same time. Yes, it really is that simple.


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coldiron wrote:
Aha the good old days and If I remember correctly minimum wage was
64 cents.

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dah_dah wrote:

Do you own a hybrid?

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On Mon, 02 May 2005 14:23:39 GMT, Old Gringo
<oldgringo-invalid-@yahoo.com> wrote:

|>coldiron wrote:
|>> And I can remember paying .05 cents a gallon for kerosene, .11 cents a
|>> gallon
|>> for white gas, .15 cents for regular and .17 cents for ethyl per gallon. I
|>> also remember a gallon of milk was .15 cents and a Milky Way candy bar sold
|>> for a nickle.

|>Aha the good old days and If I remember correctly minimum wage was
|>64 cents.

Do you know what a gallon of coffee is worth? I hate that analogy,
means absolutely nothing.

Me? I remember filling up my VW for $3.28 and it was bone dry
(.32 a gal)


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"dah_dah" <dah_dah@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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hehe... i've always wanted a hybrid vehicle
if only they where priced affordbly and can pull a full family up hills.

i didn't think a Suburban was a macho thing.
the mini-van that it replaced broke down and on the average, the two
consumed about the same amount of fuel (4 kids).

-a|ex

"GuitarMan" <usa@yourface.com> wrote in message
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yes it does....
look at the annual reports for the oil companies...

-a|ex

On 2 May 2005 16:23:12 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
wrote:

errand or do car pool. I only pay for the time I use it and a small
monthly fee. It includes gas, all repairs, the price of the car and
membership comes with a million dollar insurance policy.
All in all it cost me less a year to drive the Prius than it cost
before just for the insurance on my old Peugeot SW which is still a
good car but I haven't started it up in over 2 years. BTW if anyone
wants a nice 27 year old luxury vehicle come to Phila. Pa. It is in
good condition in my center city garage.

"coldiron" <coldiron@hominyppc.net> wrote in message
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no... i refuse to make my kids walk 15 miles to school
there are some necessities in life. a fuel burning vehicle is one of them.

this world did not get along for many, many years without it...
look at the big picture... the world isn't an amish farm community.

this is a world of commerce and technology.
get out of the stone age.

during a senate investigation, the oil company CEOs had no justifiable
reason for increasing the price of fuel to $2.00 (i saw it on CSPAN). the
result was that prices went back down.

oil company executives are always planning on how to get the public to
accept higher gas prices.
oil companies are in the business to make money, not protect the environment
or the communities.
i saw an episode on one of the history channels about BP and the history of
oil.
oil is very powerful. it's not just a consumer product. oil will both cause
wars and win wars.


killing whales for making cosmetic products and greasing up the ole' wagon
wheel?
and this is no longer popular? how so?

consumer price index....
this is a mobile society from back then.

1930's: communities were geologically closer than today.
you can walk to school back then. not any more....

-a|ex

Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov wrote:
A gallon of spit? A gallon of plutonium? A gallon of pork?

As for price *increase*, I remember gas at 19 cents and cigarettes at 30
cents -- smokes that have soared more (in US, at least).

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joevan wrote:

I was, of course, asking Mr. It's That Simple. That said...

....so you don't own, at all, then? Just do some kind of car club (like
a flying club for a light plane, I take it)?

Did you store it properly?

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name it , oil is involved throughout.Oil companies have to make a
profit or they can no longer provide it .Because they operate on a
vast scale their profits look vast too , but proportionally they are
not so.A supermarket marks up prices much more. And of course if you
have a pension scheme or investments you are probably an oil company
shareholder anyway.

petrolhead wrote:

This intrigues me. In what nation or culture does one space "before"
commas? Spacing around periods is totally inconsistent, here, but the
spaces before commas appears to be intentional -- and not the random
key-pounding that the inconsistent period treatments shows.

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On 2 May 2005 20:57:26 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
wrote:

Sorry,it's a carry over from using early programs like Publisher (and
even Word lends itself to doing it as the effect is,to me,more
pleasing.)It's quite difficult to break the habit!

petrolhead wrote:
Publisher made you space *before* a comma to result in a space *after*
the comma? You're kidding, right?

Why *no* spaces (not even the correct after-comma space) in your
reply?

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Not so 'Old Gringo.
The minimum wage was first law in 1938 at .25 cents per hour and greatly
ignored.
I worked as a farmhand back then for .50 cents a day and was pleased to get
it.
It was raised to .40 cents in 1945 and to about your figure in 1950 at .75
cents
per hour. I put myself through college mowing yards for .25 cents each in
1950
and got my MBS doing the same thing except for .50 cents each.
Read further down - 'petrolhead' has got his head on straight.

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On 2 May 2005 22:28:24 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
wrote:

punctuation mark was difficult to see.I tried to stop doing it in my
reply.It was surprisingly difficult.