[PRCo] Re: fuel costs

[Fred Schneider]

OK Dennis.  You're right and I'm wrong and I sincerely thank you for  
teaching me something I had overlooked.   About 26% of the United  
States population buys reformulated gas, all in major congested  
metropolitan areas.  If any of you are curious, google <reformulated  
gasoline pennsylvania areas>.  That gave me everything in the nation,  
not just Pennsylvania.

It's amazing what you can find with Google and high speed internet  
service ... took me only 30 seconds to find all I needed to know and  
more about reformulated gas on the internet.  Interesting that the  
Pittsburgh area had a choice to opt out of reformulated gas so fuel  
prices stayed low there.   The boundaries are the 1990 metropolitan  
statistical area or consolidated metropolitan statistical areas.   
This means that because the very much rural Pike County, Pennsylvania  
is part of the New York CMSA (because 15% of their people drive over  
into New Jersey and New York for jobs), Pike County has reformulated  
gasoline.

The prices do tend to grade from one area into another ... when you  
come down Gap Hill from Chester County into Lancaster County and now  
have regular gasoline, the prices are still much higher than you  
would have ten miles farther west.

On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:14 AM, DF Cramer wrote:

> FWS wrote:
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> "But it depends on where you are.   It is lower in Lancaster County  
> than in
> Montgomery, Delaware, Chester or Philadelphia counties.  Let me  
> phrase that
> another way, the closer you get to the refineries, the higher the  
> price.
> Difference is perhaps 10 percent.  More drive offs there?"
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> Philadelphia metropolitan area has reformulated gasoline to offset
> pollution, hence the higher cost.  It has been more expensive there  
> for
> quite a while.
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> DF Cramer   Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor
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> www.geocities.com/armconband
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