From: Herr Bookmonger (bookmonger@verizon.net)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 16:51:59 PDT
Milk here in my area of S Calif is $3.98 / gal at the 99¢ store, $4.38 at
the grocery store. (whole milk) As to water, I live in perhaps the only
part of S Calif with too much of it ! The excess is sold to Orange County.
So much for "milk ... costs less than a gallon of stuff pumped out of the
ground..."
Herr Bookmonger
Who misses his morning bowl of cereal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cole" <DavidCole@tk7.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fuel price web site from DOE - now a rant on high fuel
prices
> We are all getting screwed on oil prices.
>
> When milk extracted from a cow, that has to be refrigerated and has a
shelf
> life of a couple of weeks, costs less than a gallon of stuff pumped out of
> the ground and refined at 1000's of gallons per minute, something is
> seriously out of whack.
>
> Curiously Bush and Cheney aren't complaining much. Perhaps it is because
> their families net worth is increasing as fast as are gas prices??
>
> I'll be surprised if we don't see $2.50/gallon in Indiana before July 4th.
> Right now regular is between $1.99 and $2.12 and diesel about $1.75. No
> one is significantly pissed off about prices yet - so they will push them
> up further. They will just crank the prices up until everyone starts
> screaming and then back them down $.10 or so we all feel good about buying
> gas at $2.60 per gallon.
>
> If I was living on the west coast in Southern CA, I think I'd be a bit
more
> worried about my future fresh water supply, that the current price of gas.
> If you think you are screwed now, just wait until you guys run out of
fresh
> water in the next few years. Denver is in the same situation. Soon you
> are going to have to start using Perrier to put out the wild fires there
in
> a few years. So just wait - it can get worse.
>
> Dave - trying really hard not to go totally negative on our government.
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