Re: [Chrysler300] Fw: for lower gas prices

[Sheldon Wotring <swotring@xxxx>]

Of all the reasons for higher gas prices you list, I notice that shortage of
supply is not one of them. So why do you have a problem with SUV's?
Apparently if all SUV's disappeared it would not affect the gas prices
anyway. Also their fuel usage is comparable to the average family sedan in
the Fifties.
I see them as an attempt to regain the feeling of security we had in our
heavy Detroit iron before the government decided to redesign our cars for
us.
By the way, I do not own an SUV.
Sheldon
PA
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From: Roger <mailto:obiwan10@xxxx> Schaaf 
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Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Fw: for lower gas prices

Until I can go to the grocery store and see something besides a parking lot
full of SUV's, I will have no sympathy for those who wish to blame their
gasoline woes on the big bad oil companies.



I paid 35 cents per gallon for gasoline in 1957 when the average USA wage
was perhaps a 75 to 100 dollars per week. Now the average is probably
closer to 750 to a 1000 which is 10 times as large. Seems that gasoline has
gone up 5(or 6 in some areas) times(a large portion of that being tax
increases--or do none of your remember when you did not pay sales tax on
your gasoline-- from our out of control government and no one is calling
them greedy--such as some call the oil companies) and wages have gone up
some 10 times. Incidentally a new Corvette was about 3000 then and is
50,000 now. That is about 16 times.

I paid a 1000 dollar gas guzzler tax on my Jaguar XJR. Perhaps treating
SUV's and none business use Pick Up trucks the same as automobiles(also for
safety standards and requirements, bumper height standards, emissions) and
taxing them the same penalty would cure some of the foolish ardor for these
vehicles and leave enough fuel to go around so that we all may benefit with
lower fuel prices and help keep us out of foreign entanglements.

Yes before someone lets me know about the high fuel use of our 300's(and
other such old cars) they are not used on a regular basis and probably
contribute little to our increased overall fuel costs, smog and dependency
on foreign oil.

I just put on my cast iron jock strap to protect me from the wails that I am
sure are forthcoming. I am weary of the continuous fusillades against big
oil and the corporate greed they display everytime gasoline prices
increase(often for refinery problems, the world price of oil, stupid
government regulations on MTBE or Ethanol, cold weather, a ship sinking
somewhere etc). Another piece of advice for those who believe that the oil
companies are ripping you off. Invest your 401k and IRA monies in oil
stocks and with all your excess profits your fuel prices will not look so
bad.

We have seen the enemy and the enemy is us.....Pogo

Roger Schaaf
300 B Milpitas, California