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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?
Their supposed purpose is to reduce pollution and improve air
quality. The stated reason that they're particular to summer is
because hotter humid summer air is more prone to cause respiratory
problems. Of course it also lets politicians (falsely) blame oil
companies for "gouging" during the "summer driving season" (which, as
I pointed out above, is NOT the time of heaviest motor fuel usage).
And, these additives cause 20% price hikes?
Let's see YOUR company switch its manufacturing infrastructure from
producing ONE product to producing FORTY and see if your costs remain
constant.
This assumes you work for a company, of course, rather than for a non-
real-world job such as academia or government.
Two separate issues:
1) If oil companies haven't streamlined a seasonal process by now, they have
no business expecting customers to pay the price for their incompetence.
2) Academia isn't a real-world entity? Where are you sending YOUR kids for
their edumikation?