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>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:20:21 EST
>From: DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re Gas prices
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>What do you pay for gasoline (petrol)? We are paying $1.79/gal. here in
San
>Diego! Big oil is ripping us off! And that's if you pump it yourself! And
>I drive 25,000 mi. per year in my job. I am not amused
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Don't blame big oil necessarily. Gas taxes are a convenient way to finance
both road construction and mass transit, among other things....For example,
in our area, in order for a county to get rail service, they have to join a
regional council. The council requires that a 2 0as tax be added in order to
finance the building of stations and to subsidize train fares. All mass
transit is financed by the government somehow, gas tax is merely a sitting
duck. The only mass transit that actually survives on fare box take only, as
far as I know, is monorail. The Japanese have many monorail systems that are
completely privately run, as I understand it. See the Monorail Society web
page: http://www.monorails.org
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Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
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