[ale] OT: gas going up this weekend

[The Don Lachlan]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:31:49PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> If the national avg is $3.88 and the Ga avg is $3.76, adding the $0.05 tax
> will bring the Ga avg to $3.80 which is still less $3.88
> There are areas around metro Atl where gas is much higher than the state
> avg. I tanked up today @ $3.75. Wish my scooter still ran.

I'm sorry, Jim, I'd presumed you'd upgraded to the most recent kernel. Some
years ago we added a special kind of multi-threading called "paragraphs"
to handle Independent and Concurrent ideas. So when I mentioned ATL gas
prices to national gas prices, I was only doing it to demostrate that gas is
much more expensive than it was previously and also more expensive
relationally, even if I was incorrect about how much more expensive
relationally. In no way should you or anyone have read that I was saying
Georgia had slapped a $3/gal gas tax or anything quite so ridiculous.
Rather, I was, and am, saying that it is misguided to dismiss a gas tax
increase as inconsequential.

I think if you patch your kernel and re-read my original post, you may be
able to better handle the input given to you.

Thanks.

-L

> On Apr 28, 2011 11:05 PM, "The Don Lachlan" <ale-at-ale.org@
> unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:20:01PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, The Don Lachlan <ale-at-ale.org@
> >> unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> >> > Georgia used to have very inexpensive gas. Now, it's the higher side
> >> > of average and the national average is between 3 and 4 times what it
> was 10
> >> > years ago.
> >> National average (today) is $3.88 and Ga is $3.76. We're still lower than
> >> average and the new tax bit won't change that.
> >>
> http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
> >
> > Let me rephrase: it's over $4.00 at some gas stations in Atlanta. Georgia
> > used to have very inexpensive gas. Now, you'll pay SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN
> > THE NATIONAL AVERAGE at some Georgia gas stations.
> >
> > http://www.georgiagasprices.com/GasPriceSearch.aspx
> >
> > Happy? Prolly not, since I think you missed and notably snipped something
> > from my previous message:
> >
> > "To be clear, I'm not against this gas tax. But to dismiss its
> consequences
> > is very misguided."
> >
> > Yeah, that part.
> >
> > -L
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