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To: tejek who wrote (137838)	7/1/2001 8:33:30 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585147

Dear Ted: In the bay area there is a 25 cent tax per gallon environmental fee. You go over the range towards Sacremento and you notice the 25 cent drop in gas prices (and they drop even more as you go farther east). In LA its probably the EPA mandate for oxygenates (read ethanol now that MPE is being phased out) boosting the local price (and reducing fuel mileage). This oxygenate only helps older cars, new cars see little or no benefit in reduced emissions. Yell at them. Pete

To: tejek who wrote (137838)	7/1/2001 9:19:48 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1585147

"I read an article in the Sea. Times re the Rio Grande. The mouth of the river was once 100 feet and is now 20?!" When there is good rain. Recently the river doesn't reach the Gulf sometimes. You also have to realize that there are basically two Rio Grandes, one ends part-way through West Texas, and the other is where the Cochillo (? I think that is the name of the river) enters the Rio Grande's river bed. Water use in South Texas is a thorny issue. Not that we don't have our own problems in East Texas. Aside from Houston proper, most of the population is dependent on ground water and not surface water. Now there is plenty of surface water naturally, but swamps and shallow ponds are just not quality sources. It is difficult to site new reservoirs because the landowners in those areas block them. Since Houston has all of the existing quality surface water tied up, everybody else has to use wells. Unfortunately, the population is probably a good 10 times larger than can be reasonably supplied that way. So we are lurching towards a water crisis ourselves...