From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 25 2005 - 06:46:52 PDT
Improptu straw poll of co-workers has it at $5 a
gallon when it starts to cause them to cutback and
rethink travelling.
I already am doing route optimization of errands to
minimize drive time\save gas.
To put it back on topic slightly. Wish we could get
surplus diesel Land Rover 90's here.
Rick
--- bolton8@juno.com wrote:
> > What isn't clear is why this hasn't caused more
> of a backlash among
> consumers.
> >
> From what I have learned from numerous news
> sources, Government analysts
> have pegged the $4.00 a gallon mark as where the
> American public will
> (figuratively) take up a mass revolt. As some of
> you in parts of
> California are aware, it's 70 cents shy of that now.
>
> As for why there has not been a backlash among
> consumers sooner, it's
> primarily due to the consumer's gullibility. For
> example. When gas
> was $1.99 a gallon over the period of two weeks it
> spiked to $2.25 and
> consumers complained. It then dropped to $2.15 and
> the SUV guzzlers
> were dancing at the pumps "Hey, it's ONLY $2.15, not
> $2.25, that's
> cheap".
>
> Two months later gas spiked to $2.40 a gallon and
> consumer's complained.
> After two weeks it drops to $2.25 and the gas
> guzzler's are singing
> "Hey, it's ONLY $2.25, not $2.40, that's cheap".
> Two months later a
> $2.55 a gallon spike . . . . . . . . . . .
>
> By Thanksgiving the gullable will be dancing at the
> pumps singing "Hey,
> it's ONLY $3.05 a gallon, that's cheap".
>
>
>
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