From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 23:53:23 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: oil, greens, recycling, and poly-ticks.
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Some whining Yankee wrote: 
>>What pisses me off is that in NYC the gas prices are ridiculous high...
>>$1.35/Gal is the regular gas, drive just a few miles over a tunnel or bridge 
>>to n NJ, it's $1.00 or $.99 depending on which pump you hit...  go a bit
>south,
>>say VA, and in some areas it drops as low as $0.87 a gallon!

Over in Europe, prices are mostly about $1 -- per liter.

Back here in California, prices have been varying a lot, and
are generally higher in areas with lots of people, lots of money,
or lots of restrictions on gas stations.   Here in San Francisco,
it's about $1.30, and down in Silicon Valley it's mostly about
$1.20, with some cheaper stations and some more expensive.
We have different gas - for environmental reasons, they add
chemicals designed to pollute water and irritate people's lungs
(while reducing smog a bit.)

Those New Jersey prices, while lower than New York, are still
articifially high, since they're "full-service".  The People's 
Republic of New Jersey *knows* that regular untrained citizens
can't be trusted to pump their own gasoline reliably -
otherwise you'd be having frequent explosions at gasoline
stations like you do in the rest of the country.
Any time the legislature begins to suggest legalizing
self-service gas, small gas station owners pretending to be
little old ladies write to all the newspapers protesting that
they'd have to pay a lot more money to have gas pumped for them
and how dare these politicians be so mean to YOUR grandmothers,
and the threat disappears again for a few years.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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