Say what? Gas is under $4 now, some places probably under $3.50. 3 years ago was 2009, gas has been over $2 at least since 2005 which is as far back as I have record of in my fuel economy spreadsheet. I know I have records back to 2003 somewhere. So no, fuel prices have NOT doubled in the last 2 years, in 2005 I paid $2.57/gal for diesel, today I'm looking at $3.79, only $1.22 increase.
There is more drilling now than there has been in the last who knows how long. Remember "Drill baby drill" from 4 years ago? Whats it done for us? Energy independence will not lower the price of gas one cent. -Curt Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:21:04 -0400 From: Larry T <l02tur...@comcast.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] tire opinion Message-ID: <4fc91620.2070...@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Along with the spiraling deficit, fuel prices have doubled in the last 3 years and dragged everything with it. There's nothing that gets to the consumer without the use of fossil fuels - often more than once - for instance, a shipboard container, goes on a train then to a truck. I won't go into the vast fuel reserves we have within our borders - it's been well explained in the past -- with an halfway decent energy plan this country could be energy independent in a few years... LarryT 91 300D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
