[PRCo] Re: Fuel costs continued

[John Swindler]

This is an election year.  Suspect the price of gas will ease off by 
November.  But no big deal.  In the long range, it's going up substantially.

Another point no one wants to talk about concerning gasoline prices:   
Aren't the oil contract prices based on dollars, which has declined in value 
over the past couple years?  Guess it's ok for Americans to demand quarterly 
cost of living adjustments in their paychecks, but it is illegal for 
non-Americans to demand cost of living adjustments in oil supply contracts.  
Because in a round about way, that is what you are seeing.

John



>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fuel costs continued
>Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:16:24 -0600
>
>Gasoline in the Chicago area has risen to around $1.79/gallon recently.
>
>The big price jump, though, is for cigarettes - an 82-cent/pack city tax
>went into effect today, making the price of a pack over $5.
>
>Bob 4/1/04
>
>-----------------------------
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:33 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Fuel costs continued
>
>
> > Current price regular gasoline in southern Germany?   $5.28 a gallon
> > based on .80 euros to the dollar.   That will sell a lot of monster
> > SUVs.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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