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From: rdz@ccice6.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: Is this happening where you live?
Message-ID: <417@ccice6.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 12:10:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 12:10:16 1986
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Summary: Maybe I spoke too soon

In article <51@calgary.UUCP>, west@calgary.UUCP (Darrin West) writes:
> > I'm sure we have all heard the reports about how OPEC is going down
> > the tubes and soon crude oil prices will be falling through the floor.
> > What I have observed here in Rochester (Western NYS) is that pump
> > prices for gasoline are actually INCREASING at the rate of about 1
> > cent every other week for the last month or so.  I can only assume
> > we will be handed the line, by "The Industry", that this is because
> > refineries are busy making home heating oil.  Has anyone noticed this
> > happening in other parts of the country?  Are prices going down anywhere?

Well, here I go again.  Not one week after I posted the above, a mini
gas war, of sorts, broke out in my area.  Now prices have dropped about
$.03 in two weeks.  Could it be that the laws of economics are finally
going to apply to the oil industry?..............Naw!