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Re: Are you FED UP with high gas prices?!

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From: S.E. Homer
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
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Julia Kelso <jkelso@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:

> Not that it's particularly relevant to the issue of writing our 
> congresspeople (and I agree with the idea about using gas taxes to fund
> public transportation) but I thought I might add a sense of perspective.
> I'm attending graduate school in Newfoundland Canada and we're paying
> about .63 per LITRE, which, once all the various mathematical 
> calculations are done, still works out to around $2.00 a gallon.  
> Consider yourselves lucky.

Lucky?  I don't think so.  We just saw our transportation bill take a
big jump.  I consider that unfortunate.  I consider your situation even
less fortunate.
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From: homer@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us (S.E. Homer)
Subject: Re: Are you FED UP with high gas prices?!
Date: 1996/06/21
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