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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (59533)	3/15/2004 1:10:43 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Yes, but California is also the laboratory for the oil industry's gasoline-price excuse machine. Not enough refining infrastructure, too many regulations, environmentally correct formulation requirements, blah, blah, blah. The bottom line is that GWB's energy buddies get together and screw Californians out of a few more dimes per gallon of gas, and in this state that adds up to a lot of dollars. However, we have to plead guilty on having ourselves to blame to some extent, since, all the of Hummers on the road aside, fully half the cars in some areas are SUV's of one kind or another. I see an unbelievable number of people wheeling around in four-ton Suburbans (alone, not with a car full of kids) all the time. We're too good as hypnotic subjects. Show us a commercial and we'll borrow money to buy anything. That's how come we still have an economy. --QS

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (59533)	3/15/2004 4:44:37 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Cheryl, that brought back memories to me. When I graduated from college I started my career in Pgh. Pa. I hated it up north (being raised in Fla.) and eventually got an opportunity to relocate in Fla. When I interviewed they fellow said to me, "you know you have to take a portion of your pay in sunshine". I said to him, I would go to HELL before I would ever take a pay cut. I think I might have been the first person to return to Fla. and get a RAISE. haha. JDN

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (59533)	3/15/2004 11:51:08 PM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Cheryl All that is totally besides the point. We were simply talking about the REITEMENT PLAN INCENTIVES and how they fail to consider the value of a dollar in different locales. Why O Why is a family making over $150K in Palo Alto considered "rich" and denied for example Roth exception? All other things, "sunshine tax" and all that stuff -- totally off the mark. Check the thread. And, perhaps it might surprise you but not all CA is "sunshine". Check the geography ;-) Regards Dinesh