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[IP] more on Prices Fuel a Rebellion / Drivers Tired of Paying More for Premium Gasoline Switch to Regular





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From: "R. Stockton Gaines" <gaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 7, 2005 9:24:07 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Prices Fuel a Rebellion / Drivers Tired of Paying More for Premium Gasoline Switch to Regular


This is a fabrication.

There is a very serious energy crisis unfolding, with urgent ramifications for the country and the world. Simplistic and false statements such as Warren's help not at all. Anyone interested should read Deffeyes' book "Hubbert's Peak" or his more recent book, or the book "Twighlight in the Dessert" by Matthew Simmons.

Because world oil production and North America natural gas production are both peaking, or possibly past their peaks, the price of oil has risen dramatically over the last 3 years, from in the $20/barrel range to over $60 (natural gas prices have also changed just as dramatically). The trend is up, and prices at the pump respond to the trend. In my view, they will go several times higher in the next few years. This has nothing to do with the short term fluctuations in oil prices. It is a very serious problem, as it may drastically alter world economies, and deserves serious discussion, rather than amateurish comments.


At 03:47 PM 8/7/2005, you wrote:



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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: August 7, 2005 6:06:23 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Prices Fuel a Rebellion / Drivers Tired of Paying
More for Premium Gasoline Switch to Regular


Has everyone else noticed that -- when unrefined/raw crude oil barrel- prices increase, there is a near-INSTANT increase in retail pump- prices for the finished, refined product ... but when crude-oil
barrel-prices decrease ... gee gollie gosh ... it seems to take WEEKS
for the retail prices to similarly subside.

That's called "free enterprise" and "marketplace competition" ...
cartel-style!

--jim


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R. Stockton Gaines
Chairman, Acorn Technologies, Inc.
310 230-3636 x11



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