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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: gas prices
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 13:26:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 13:26:23 1984
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True, Dave, that's more than inflation.  Inflation was pretty high
during some of those years (>10%), but I think the inflated price
of 23.5 cents in '79 works out to less than 35 cents now.  If I
remember correctly, though, the debate over the budget was not so
much the amount of the increase, but how long it would take to
phase in.  Stretching out the rise to closer-to-world prices to diminish
its inflationary effect seems like a good, prudent, course and may well have
saved some jobs.  This is a good example of Liberal pragmatism as opposed to
Tory ideologism (we'll raise the prices to what they SHOULD be, by gosh--
it'll be GOOD for them).

p. rowley, U. Toronto

(how long can we continue to use the same first-sentence structure?)