[PRCo] Re: 4398

[Fred Schneider]

And the European taxes are not road taxes on gasoline, they are general fund taxes on
gasoline.
John Swindler wrote:

> Yes, $2 per gallon is still cheap.  Couple days ago say a reference that to
> adjust for inflation since 1981, gas should cost around $2.80 per gallon
> today.
>
> However, back in 1981 I was lucky to put 10,000 miles per year on a car.
> Today it's 35,000  miles per year ----  correction:  using public transit
> from Hershey since last Sept. will eliminate over 10,000 miles per year.
> Another factor is that my '95 Ford Taurus gets about 30 miles per gallon,
> rather then the 20 miles per gallon that was able to coax out of a '72 Dodge
> Dart.  Now about those SUVs that so many suburban folks have purchased past
> couple years that I see idling in congested rush hour traffic......
>
> Fred talks about the price of gas in Europe being so much higher.  Actually
> the price of gasoline is about the same.  It's the government taxes that are
> so much higher.  Wish I could remember the exact numbers, (you hear
> something, think 'that's interesting', forget abut it, then try to remember
> the details several years later - very frustrating) but 4-5 years ago heard
> that OPEC oil price was about 50 cents per gallon; refining and
> transportation was about 50 cents; and taxes about 50 cents.  However in
> Europe, the taxes were about $3-$4 per gallon, which accounted for cost
> difference at pump.
>
> John
>
> >From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
> >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398
> >Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:05:45 -0500
> >
> >Thanks.  I want to see it [Glendale] later this year.
> >
> >A tad over $2 a gallon?  Sounds cheap to me.  I've got to inquire of my
> >friends in Europe to see how much gasoline prices have gone up over there.
> >Germany and England were nudging past the $5 mark last summer.  I've been
> >told it is getting close to $6 but that needs to be verified.
> >
> >Fuel here is about $1.75 for 89 octane (VW engines don't like a steady diet
> >of 87 octane fuel)  here is Lancaster.  Seemed about the same in Washington
> >last weekend but some of the turnpike stations were between $1.80 and
> >$1.90.   Housing is a much bigger variable ... I suspect I could sell my
> >place for $200K.  When you get into some of the depressed parts of western
> >Pennsylvania, it gets much lower.  Ed told me that the smaller homes in
> >Meadowlands go for as low as $40,000 but that they go so fast that they are
> >never on a published list by the real estate brokers.   Restaurant meals
> >are a lot cheaper out in the Washington area.  Ed, Janice and I went into a
> >restaurant in his neighborhood last week ... a local place that was always
> >good but had just changed hands ... someone coming out suggested we
> >seriously read the menu and look at the prices before we stay and eat.
> >During dinner we saw quite a few people come in, note that the prices had
> >gone up, and they left.  How much!
> >  was
> >it?  How expensive was it?  I had white clam sauce over pasta, with about a
> >dozen whole clams in shells around it, a salad, and a glass of wine for $17
> >plus tax and tip.  I thought it was economical and by eastern Pennsylvania
> >standards, it was.
> >
> >
> >rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hey guys. I would really like to abandon California for a cheaper place
> >to live. Any such place exist near PTM ???  Gas prices here are out of
> >sight and now at $2.23 for reg. !!!!!   cheers rogertrolley      I finally
> >got to San Pedro to see the Red Car operation there with two replica PE 500
> >class cars and the real PE 1057 rebuilt out of a ten and nine hundred class
> >car. Richard Fellows boatyard was next to Terminal Island where hundreds of
> >PE cars were scrapped. He suceeded in dragging 2 hulks over to his yard and
> >spliced them together to create the #1057, which was one number higher than
> >the PE tens went. A great operation of only 1 3\4 miles long. Operates
> >friday thru monday 8am to 6pm.  A great ride with a passing track in
> >middle. Also rode the New Pasadena Gold line. A truley funky operation of a
> >lite rail line on all kinds of right-of-way. Center of freeway ,tunnel,
> >P-R-W, middle of a street at 20mph and numerous road crossings where
> >several collisions and near miss!
> >es!
> > >  have ocurred with brain dead drivers, plus elevated concrete structures
> >and finally ending at LA UNION STA. where in order to get to downtown ,the
> >Red Line heavy rail is taken three stations !!!!  $3 all day pass gets you
> >anywhere you want to go. Only parking is at Pasadena end at Sierra Madre
> >Sta. where a free parking garage is located beside the I-210.
> >
> >
> >
>
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