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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.
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.
"Streamlining the process" would mean ONE FORMULA, NOT FORTY to anybody
with a brain.
Nope. Plenty of other industries make seasonal adjustments to products and
processes. You may crave simplicity (for reasons which are obvious to
everyone except you), but in the grownup world, you won't get it.