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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] price of gasoline
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:32:18 -0400

on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:21:35PM -0400, Beckett wrote:
> Somebody help me out here. I am trying to figure out whether the
> latest huge spike in the price of gasoline more closely resembles:
>
> a) an overburdened delivery infrastructure much like the recent
> blackout in the northeast, or
>
> b) producers and brokers gaming the market to reap enormous profits,
> much like Enron and Duke Energy did with the California power crisis of
> a couple years ago.

I thought it was due to MTBE shortages, not actual shortages of gasoline
itself. Think of water desalination - you can be sitting on the beach and
not have a drop to drink.

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