Glenn
I'D Rather Be Skiing
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join:2000-10-05
Wallingford, CT
| reply to pandora
Re: Gas Spikes.,...
Don't forget, we're all enjoying high gas prices nationwide from the EPA mandated use of "seasonal blends". So now too few, old refineries have to switch over every so often to make different "blends" of gasoline. I'm sure this gives the environuts a warm and fuzzy feeling. A mind boggling number of blends probably reminds them of going to Starbucks and ordering a complicated cafinated beverage. I'm more of D&D simpleton myself, but that's besides the point.
Furthermore, when we dropped the disastrous additive known as MTBE (because the EPA found out it did nasty things to ground water) we switched to ethanol. With the current state of corn prices (mostly due to the ethanol hoopla) the price of that went up. Ethanol has a funny habit of causing you to get worse gas mileage. I've never figured out the logic of a marginally "cleaner" burning product....but it requires you to use more of it. Isn't that what they call a zero sum game?
Anyways, as of now, crude is trading at $97.40 a barrel...and Ike did little to no damage to refineries. The prices jumped up 10+ cents this weekend. Something tells me I won't be seeing a 10+ cent drop on my ride home this evening.
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