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Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
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Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:57:49 GMT
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote in message <000f01bfedc4$bc626080$46d9d8d0@SES>...
> > Also I want to blame those types of vehicles for why our gas
> > prices have gone up so much, hee-hee.
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> I blame the government, sir. No hee hee's needed.
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> Scott S.
> --
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR HIGH GAS PRICES?
The Environmental Protection Agency, that's who.
We learn this from a June 5th memo written for Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson (you know, he of the missing hard drives) by the department's
acting policy director, Melanie Kenderdine. In the memo, Kenderdine writes
that the Clinton administration knew that its own environmental regulations
were causing gas prices to jump in the Midwest last month--despite their
public claims that the oil companies were the villains here.
It all goes back to the rules EPA made for reformulated gasoline--the stuff
that's designed to burn cleaner and reduce your car's harmful emissions. EPA
required that the Chicago and Milwaukee areas sell reformulated gasoline
this summer. The formula being sold in the Midwest is specific to that area,
and it's more difficult and expensive to produce than other grades of gas.
You remember the Clinton administration's line on the gas prices. They said
it's the fault of those fatcat, evil, wealthy, rich bastards at the oil
companies. The Clintonistas said the price spikes in the Midwest couldn't be
explained...so therefore, they were suspicious. Al Gore said that the oil
companies were price gouging.
The media took this message and spread it far and wide. The oil companies
made a convenient punching bag, Bill Clinton and Al Gore made themselves
look like they're men of action, and consumers got fooled by all of it.
And just when you thought the Energy Department was just a clearinghouse for
sending nuclear secrets abroad, here they come with the memo that lays it
all out for the public to see.
Unfortunately, most of the public won't see it because the media won't cover
a story that has negative implications for Clinton-Gore...or because it's
Friday, and who wants to do any kind of thinking on a Friday?
You can read about it at:
http://208.246.212.80/business/default-200071401110.htm
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