At 11:27 AM -0700 5/8/2004, Dave Wood wrote:
>Larry,
>
>I started driving in 1957 on my 15th birthday (actually somewhat before that
>but legally in 1957) and the price of gas was 20 to 25 cents per galleon.
>The difference between then and now is that then there were actually
>different petroleum companies who competed with each other and many, if not
>most of the service stations when not company owned. Now, that is not at
>all the case, the company stations force out the few remaining private
>owners and the gasoline that we buy under fewer and fewer different brand
>names comes out of the same barrel. OPEC isn't the only one who is
>controlling prices or trying to, how about Shell buying out Texaco or should
>I say Chevron/Texaco. You and I don't stand a chance at getting anything
>but corporate controlled gasoline prices at the pump. The fact that
>gasoline prices are pretty cheap in the U.S. compared to prices in Europe
>and elsewhere doesn't alter the fact that we are getting gouged each time
>there is any pretence of international crises.
>
>Sorry about the rant.
>
>Dave 72 B
Oh yes, back before the good old 80's when there was still an active
antitrust division in the Federal Government.
OBTW, rant accepted.
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Bob Shaw
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My British Car is NOT leaky - it's merely marking its territory.
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