In article <432b982f.39164555@news.optonline.com>, karens@SilSea.cupcaked.com says...
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>"HC_Yacht_Deliveries" wrote:
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>>Talked to a relative in Norway today....gasoline there is almost equal
>>to $8 US a gallon. It's not just us, guys. I say we take the entire oil
>>industry and drop them from a chopper into downtown New Orleans.
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>I was curious to see just how much gas prices have gone up over the
>last few decades since we had to wait in lines at the fuel pumps back
>in the 1970s. This article was interesting, even though it's a bit
>dated regarding what's going on now. It shows, as did other articles
>I came across, that real incomes have gone up faster than the price of
>fuel.
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>http://www.cato.org/research/articles/taylor-040406.html
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Whenever I see somebody play with figures like that I figure he is
trying to mislead me.
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