[ale] OT: gas going up this weekend

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> What's really obscene is the price of diesel.   Not so long ago diesel
> on average was cheaper than 87 octane gas.   Some people even bought
> diesel cars because they were cheaper to run.   Somewhere along the line
> the oil companies realized they could get a lot more money by raising
> the price of diesel to be as high as premium gas.  Most people wouldn't
> howl because they weren't smart enough to realize that was costing them
> even if they didn't drive a diesel car.  Nearly everything you buy ends
> up being on a diesel powered truck somewhere along the line.   (Even if
> shipped by train it has to be transshipped from the freight depot to
> final destination for most things that aren't being delivered to
> manufacturing plants/mills with their own rail.)

Aren't the rail engines diesel as well at this time?

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Derek Atkins
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:24 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: gas going up this weekend
> 
> Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> writes:
> 
>>> FWIW, Aviation Fuel (100LL AvGas) does still have T-E-L in it.
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>    
>> Thanks for that bit. I don't indulge in private aviation, so I'm not 
>> surprised at my ignorance. Still, how much avgas is used vs.
> automobile 
>> fuel?
> 
> Oh, much much less.  I don't have numbers offhand, but I would guess
> much less than 1%.
> 
> -derek
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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