[Vision2020] Gas Prices

[Don Kaag]

Bill:

Lewiston gas prices are normally lower in all grades than Moscow in all 
seasons, a much-belabored subject for many years in both the local 
press and on Vision 2020, so it is unusual for Lewiston to be higher 
than we.  I am sure Busch Distributors will wake up and raise our 
prices so they are again higher than Lewiston... be patient.

Additionally, we are nearing Spring.  As everyone knows, every Spring 
gas and oil prices skyrocket, as the major petroleum companies prepare 
to gouge the great American public on their summer vacations.  This 
year the excuse will be unrest in the Middle East.  Unrest in the 
Middle East has been going on at least since some Egyptian farmer 
managed to grow more grain than he could eat, and started trading his 
surplus to someone else in the Middle East or the Mediterranean rim for 
something else.  "Unrest" has nothing to do with it.  While the Middle 
East has a bunch of oil, so do Scotland and Norway in the North Sea, 
Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria, and Indonesia, to name a few.  And 
more reserves keep being found in West Africa, Western Brazil and the 
South China Sea.  There is no world oil shortage at present.

One of these years, absent any critical events in the Middle East, the 
press will do serious think-pieces on the Springtime skyrocketing of 
gas prices, based upon the sudden return of the swallows to Capistrano, 
or the fact that Brittany Spears or Madonna found clothes and plan to 
enter a nunnery.

Cynically Yours,

Don Kaag


On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 08:52 AM, Bill Kerr wrote:

> On Friday I happened to notice that gas prices in Lewiston varied from 
> 1.59 to 1.69 for unleaded.  That same day the gas prices here in 
> Moscow where at 1.66.  Have we been living with an inflated price or 
> have Lewiston gas dealers been giving their drivers a deal?
>
> Bill Kerr
> billk@moscow.com
> billk@drseuss.lib.uidaho.edu
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