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Re: high gasoline prices was Re: ATM fees are about to rise substantially

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <ADA5C014966812EE6A@ehrice.his.com>,
Edward Rice <ehrice@his.com> wrote:
}In article <4le4cg$qo9@wanda.phl.pond.com>,
}russotto@wanda.phl.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
}
} > I'm looking at this on dc.general.  Anyone who has lived in the DC area
} > knows that isn't so -- rolling blackouts during the summer are
} > commonplace, and a few years ago there were capacity problems with all
}the DC
} > area utilities except Potomac Edison (which told Alcoa to take a few
} > days off)--- this resulted in rolling blackouts during the winter.

}Maybe up in Montgomery County, Matthew (for those out of the area, it's the
}poor section of the DC suburbs)

ROTFL.

} -- but here in the Virginia 'burbs, closer
}to DC than you used to live before you moved to Philadelphia, we certainly
}haven't ever had "rolling blackouts."  I know not how you ever got that
}idea, either 

Listening to WTOP... that'll teach me to trust the news stations.

(For those out of the area: It's not actually possible to penetrate
more than about a mile into Northern Virginia from the MD suburbs,
owing to NoVa's road system)
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto      russotto@pond.com     russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." 
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From: russotto@wanda.phl.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: high gasoline prices was Re: ATM fees are about to rise substantially
Date: 1996/04/26
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