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Subject:Re: Fuel Price Gouging - Again - It jumped nearly $1 locally here withing in just a few hours.
From:Jim Cochran
Date:Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:09:46 -0700

Unleaded regular here in Mexico is $2.75 gal, diesel #2 is $2.27
Jim C

71 Van
86 Westy

On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Chris S wrote:

> John,
>
> Prices around Atlanta are up 10 cents with no change in Diesel.
>
>
> 2008/9/12 John Rodgers <inua@charter.net>
>
>> Anybody see this happening in your area?
>>
>> Gas locally here jumped from $3.49 to $4.20 just this afternoon. 25
>> miles further down the road - greater deliver distance by truck -
>> it has
>> gone to $5.25/gallon.
>>
>> It's a rip, and ought to be stopped - at least until the next round
>> of
>> fuel tanker deliveries. The fuel in the ground was  purchased at
>> prices
>> based on sales calculated around $3.50 to $3.60 per gallon. There
>> is no
>> justification for this except greed, pure and simple. I believe in
>> free
>> market  - to a point. But  some things should not be subject to the
>> whims of the market place .... those things that are crucial to
>> life and
>> civilization.
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>> Chelsea, AL
>>
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> Chris S.
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