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To: brushwud who wrote (253392)	10/2/2005 3:38:03 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578529

Brushwud, At $3 per gallon, three thousand dollars would buy a thousand gallons. My car gets 28 mpg, so that would get me 28,000 miles. An average family of four doesn't drive that much to begin with. Maybe a lot of us are driving less efficient SUVs, but I'd like to know where she got this figure. Both parents driving around, at least one of them working, the other likely to be working, but also likely to be taking the kids to soccer practice, etc. Most cars get about 22 MPG in the city, so with two cars each being driven 15,000 miles a year, a family would need to pay for 1,360 gallons of gas, or $4,080 a year if gas is $3/gallon. Not an unreasonable assumption ... until you realize that Sen. Cantwell said, "The truth is, an average family of four will spend over three thousand dollars more on gasoline this year." Now that's where the B.S. begins. Tenchusatsu