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Article #246Re: Boycott Gas!
From: Terry nospam Spragg
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00
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The only way to reduce gas prices is to reduce consumption. Buy more economical cars, pool travel, use public transport. As far as pooling is concerned, put up a sign at work. Advertise in the paper. Use a coordinator / despatcher to take reservations in advance. If you can't get a free ride, give one. The prices were reduced after the gas crunch 15 years ago when more efficient cars became popular. People forget, however, and now are buying big cars again. We do it to our selves. Buying 3 bucks worth at a time and paying with big bills will only burden the gas station employees; don't blame the minimum wagers for this. But if everyone carried the minimum gas they could, and therefore got better mileage, not hauling all that extra weight, we could reduce the consumer inventory considerably, transferring all that gas we don't carry around to the tanks of the retailers and wholesalers, making it look like a reduction in demand, but that will be only temporary. We also need to drive fewer more efficient cars less distance with smaller loads. Hitch hike with a sign saying "Saving gas". Bike. Walk. Stay home. Don't 'cruise' or sight see. Terry K
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,40ab982872a4854b X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,85a81b7c704306be X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 111b2d,b85fdbdba20e3e11 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b2d,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,85a81b7c704306be X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: fbdd9,40ab982872a4854b X-Google-Attributes: gidfbdd9,public From: Terry nospam Spragg <tknospamspragg@nbnet.nb.ca> Subject: Re: Boycott Gas! Date: 1999/09/09 Message-ID: <37D7C752.FBC4BB0E@nbnet.nb.ca> X-Deja-AN: 522946986 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <935811582.297248@sarabi> <7q7snb$2thr$1@hub.org> <HE1y3.535$Z87.1892274@news.bctel.net> <37cc90c3.82627873@news.wolf> <37C9A8FF.D1EF1B98@aalcom.com> <7qchh7$pck$1@hub.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NBTel Internet Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: hfx.general,can.general,bc.general,nb.general,ab.general