Steve Thrasher wrote in
:

I hate to break this to you. I live in Alaska. The crude is tankered
down to you guys, refined and tankered back up here. I saw it for
$2.1599 at one of the Fred Meyers yesterday. Meaning with my fuel
discount it's costing me $2.0599. Yep, I just filled up.


I used to be mobile cal lab manager for EIL Instruments, one of
Maryland's beltway bandits, and drove from their office in Va Beach
across to as far as the Mexican border calibrating CG, FAA and Navy
remotely situated test equipments at little bases, FAA VORTACs and Loran
C sites all over. (Try calibrating a scope while your cal lab is sitting
BETWEEN the capacitor hat and ground system of a multimegawatt 100Khz
Loran C pulse transmitter, some time.)

On one trip, some payback for voting the wrong way resulted in fuel being
made in Eastern Texas was allocated away from there to their pet states,
leaving poor Texans working AT the refineries with NO GAS at the 7-
Elevens!

I sat at a La Quinta Motor Inn in Beaumont, staring longingly at FOUR oil
refineries running full blast, trying to explain to my ****ed off boss
that the van's saddle tanks were EMPTY and this oil refining city had NO
GAS FOR SALE until Monday Morning at 9AM! We were gonna be late getting
to the CG Station in Brownsville, still half a world away across TEXAS!
Of course, my boss blamed me. Everything was my fault....(c;

Alaska needs to get in the refining business, then tell America what it
wants for gas and diesel...(c;....instead of just giving crude away until
it's gone.

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.