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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

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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