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Brian W. wrote:
> Ah but you see people pick the car best suited to their interests. I
> drive a 79' Honda Civic that gets upwards of 40 MPG and I still despise
> the fact that I have to pay a buck and a half a gallon.
> 
I undersatand what you say, but if people choose to be more polluting
then surely they ought to pay more for it (more than they do now).
We all have personal choice in what we wear for example but you pay a
hell of a lot more for silk ties than we do for the plain polyester
ones. Expensive tastes cost.

> A small difference in the gas pricing for here vs. England is that the
> US has it's own native supply of crude oil, whereas England has no such
> resouces availiable to them (far as I know) which should counter-balance
> the price of petroleum-based gas significantly.
> 
England has natural gas and oil fields in the North Sea and anyway the
price of oil is international and not really different from one place to
another. There is also a lot of oil imported into the US from the middle
east.

 when I see the cost of
> gas raise by as much as 30% in a month's time, something is wrong. Gas
> doesn't get that much more expensive to produce in a month.

True, but of course this fluctuation is true to form of supply and
demand curves. If the customer really wants it he'll pay for it
philosophy hence prices surge as we go towards summer.

Vince