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"OlBlueEyes" wrote in message
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"Bert Robbins" wrote in news:TPidnT9XbdWp9sDeRVn-
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The price of gasoline starts to rise in the middle of may and it usually
descends in the middle of September.

And that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the so-called "summer driving
season". Think about it - the fuel needed to transport EVERY SCHOOL KID
IN THE COUNTRY during September through May is FAR MORE than the fuel
needed to transport small percentages of the population as they take ONE
vacation.

The real reason that gas prices go up in the summer is - you guessed it -
GOVERNMENT. Due to a ridiculous patchwork of useless environmental
regulations, there are about FORTY different gasoline formulations during
the summer. Now, is it cheaper for refineries to crank out FORTY
different formulas? Or ONE?

I know nothing about what you said in that last paragraph, except that you
said "ridiculous". Since you made the statement, you must be fairly well
informed about these gasoline formulations. What's their purpose, and why
are they particular to summer?