[SOC] expensive place

[Carlos J Caro]

> You should be grateful you live that side of the 'pond'. Here we 
> regularly pay
> 80 pence a litre which is currently $1.50 ish. For a US gallon, that 
> equates to
> around $5.45.

 Ray

Lets not overlook the fact that in Gt. Britain you have a cradle 
to grave social support system. The funds for that in part come 
from the $3.30 tax on each gallon. We on the other hand don't
get anything for the taxes we pay on gasoline so we want them 
and the price of gas low. As soon as the news stated that OPEC
was going to increase production by ten percent, I noticed a 3
cents drop in price this past week. That tells me that the price
increase has nothing to do with Iraq but rather speculators 
running the cost up.

Regards,

Carlos