[Az-Geocaching] Re: Gas prices

[Scott Wood]

At 10:20 AM 4/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>Blame it on the oxygenated fuel.  Crude oil prices have come down
>considerably... this is why the whole country's fuel prices have come down.
>The price of fuel in the Phoenix area hasn't come down too much because
>there's a shortage of the "treated" fuel which compounds the problem.

I have a friend down here that used to own a couple gas stations and is now 
a lobbyist for such matters.  Apparently many states that used to have the 
treated gas in the summers have been banning it.  It seems that the stuff 
used to treat gas has adverse environmental problems.  Sort of a unintended 
consequence that was never thought about when they passed this law.  The 
problem now is that with the supply nationwide for the treated gas going 
away, fewer and fewer states are now using it, that the price for us has 
artificially gone up.

I just heard a national story about how gas prices have gone DOWN about 30 
cents a gallon over the last month.  All I have seen here in Tucson is a 
drop of about 6 cents.


In liberty,

Scott

wood@myblueheaven.com
www.myblueheaven.com