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To: LindyBill who wrote (111310)	4/26/2005 1:30:12 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

the traffic in L.A. seems to be getting less horrible as gas prices get closer to $3.00 a gallon. CA's got a real good scam going with gas sales. In addition to fixed per gallon federal and state taxes, they charge a sales tax on fuel purchases, so the higher the gas prices go, the more taxes you pay. Don't know how many other states have this racket going but the State of CA has no incentive to see prices come down. BTW, here in Southern NV, gas prices are about .25 per gallon higher than they are just a few miles away over the borders of AZ and UT. Disgusting...

To: LindyBill who wrote (111310)	4/26/2005 1:30:39 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

Peter Huber has no idea of what it is to live until the check comes in. People will not be buying pick up trucks with large engines, or suv's with low mileage. They cannot afford to drive the things. I know of a few who have parked the suv and drive the honda because they cannot fill the gas tank. Huber may not have any idea of what the cost of heating a house has gone to in the last couple of years. Prices have gone through the roof. People have cut down on heat best they can but bills are still huge. this is why low income and middle income people do not more disposable income to spend at retail stores etc. background Peter Huber is a lawyer and writer. He earned a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., and served as an Assistant and later Associate Professor at M.I.T. for six years. His law degree is from the Harvard Law School. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He is a Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, and Chairman of Telecom Policy and Analysis: a Kellogg, Huber Consulting Group. Mr. Huber's professional expertise is in telecommunications markets and antitrust policy