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Re: gas prices - YIKES!

To: "Laura Gharazeddine" <Laura.G@141.com>,
Subject: Re: gas prices - YIKES!
From: "N.A. Campiglia III" <spitdrvr@camalott.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:41:50 -0600
Ouch...  Just filled up with 97 at $1.51 per....  I guess I dont have it so
bad..

Hey, what was I just doing in Saudi???

Nick
N.A. Campiglia III
Abilene, TX
'67 Spitfire MKIII
'74 Spitfire 1500
http://camalott.com/~spitdrvr
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Gharazeddine <Laura.G@141.com>
To: Simmons, Reid W <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>; <Triumphs@autox.team.net>;
'Spitfires' <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: gas prices - YIKES!


>
> I paid $2.07 the other night in Santa Monica-(no, it didn't come with
> vaseline) Down here-in Costa Mesa, it's at $1.91-but 3 miles down the road
> in Newport Beach -it's $2+ (But, their roads are actually repaired...)
>
> Anybody heard anything more about the truckers in D.C.?
>
> I know people hwo use courier services for work-and there's a shortage of
> couriers-because they're paid by the mile and gas is too expensive to go
to
> work!
>
> Then there's the seniors who are picketing gas stations around
L.A.-they've
> formed an action group. That seniors and people on fixed incomes are
really
> in a tight spot with the gas prices. They're trying to get the oil
companies
> to give senior discounts (well, if they wanted to be fair-they'd give
> discounts to people who are disabled and living on disability too-it would
> have to be a lot more for it to be considered not a lot of money!) I hope
> that they win!!!!
>
> Laura
>
> Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Simmons, Reid W <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
> To: <Triumphs@autox.team.net>; 'Spitfires' <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:36 PM
> Subject: RE: gas prices - YIKES!
>
>
> >
> > O.K. Fred go ahead and rub it in.  Last Friday I paid $1.87/gal for 91
> > octane here in Oregon.  Some other stations were priced at $1.93.
> However,
> > I heard on the radio that gas was $2.20/gal in Flagstaff, Arizona, is
this
> > true?  I'm going to have to get my Spitfire "legalized" and on the road
> real
> > soon because my Z-28 only gets 12.7 MPG and it "demands" the high octane
> > stuff.
> >
> > Reid
> > '79 Spitfire (original owner)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Thomas [mailto:vafred@erols.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:38 PM
> > To: Triumphs@autox.team.net
> > Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> > Subject: gas prices
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, I filled the spit gas tank this a.m. in Fredericksburg Va.,
(Exxon)
> > 1.43 9/10, regular, 151.9 hi-test. 159.9 premium.   Sorry West-Coast, I
am
> > not trying to rub it in, also a article in yesterdays paper, the U.S.
> > exports more oil to the "Far-East" than it imports world wide,
understand
> > now, thats just what we send to the F.E., and does not include the rest
of
> > the world.  "FT"
> >
> >
> >


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