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Re: Try our gas prices!!

To: Jacques Le Clainche <hobbycars@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Try our gas prices!!
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:18:46 -0700
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
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Unfortunately, gasoline prices cannot be separated from politics, for 
politics are inextricably linked to the cost of gasoline at the pump.

>I bought gas yesterday at my local Shell station in Lakeside, San Dan Diego 
>County. Price for unleaded regular unleaded was $2.799, and premium was $2.999 
>- close enough to three dollars, right? 
>
The problem, of course, is with sweeping generalizations as, "It's 
already fairly common in So Cal to have to pay over $3.00 a gallon for 
premium."  That in itself is simply not the case.  Oh, it is possible to 
find such a price, and it is true that the media zooms in on them simply 
because the ARE bizarre and unusual, thereby creating a totally false 
impression.   The two best sources for gas prices in Southern California 
are the Lundberg Letter and the Automobile Club of Southern California's 
"Gas Watch".

As far as which cars require premium, or can do just as well on regular, 
both Consumer Reports and Edmunds.com have looked at the issue and find 
that modern technology does not require premiumin in the vast majority 
of MOST cars, including high-end cars and SUV's.  It is important, both 
as well as the AAA emphasize, to read the owner's manual carefully to 
see if it is actually required, or simply recommended.  It seems that 
most people simply assume that their high-end cars, including SUV's, 
require it when it just ain't so.  As far as a "middle grade", even the 
industry admits that it is in response to a perceived need by the 
public, not of any real need by cars.

Interestingly enough, I have met Sprite owners in England who say they 
can still find leaded regular if they look hard enough, or who are 
satisfied with not "HRT", but "LRT"--"lead replacement therapy", or 
additives.





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