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Ev Archive for March 1999
1534 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:44:43 2001

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Re: Smug EVers



It's Easter weekend here in the big smoke (Toronto) and so the price of gas
is going up so the oil co's can make an extra profit from all those guys
going to the cottage.....  People ask me how many miles to the gallon I get
and shake their heads.

regards   Eric
1974 Citicar
1984 Datsun truck
1986 RX6 i/p
Electrac 15
..... just a short list of electric toys that I have.

At 01:26 PM 31/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
>EV drivers in California have another good reason to feel smug lately.
>Due to several unrelated major refinery problems, the cost of gasoline
>has jumped over 50 cents/gallon in the last week (at least in Northern
>California where I live).  This is largely windfall profit taking by the
>the refiners, but it's being exaggerated by typical consumer panic
>buying.  In some of the smaller towns, and out on the Coast, prices have
>reached $2/gallon and higher.