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To: TimF who wrote (374481)	3/18/2008 4:03:28 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Paying more for gas is meaningless in the context of the exchange. At the time you buy gas it cost a certain amount you might shop around and save a few pennies... Or if you are a sensible person (or society), you might invest heavily in finding an alternative. Especially when the product is sapping your wealth and the trend is up 100% in the last year; 500% in six years. And alternatives exist... Yes you burn the gas, but if that isn't a transfer of wealth. If you get nothing from burning the gas its a straight destruction of wealth. If you value the use you put it to, its the use of wealth to get something you value. In this case a non-durable thing similar to going to see a movie paying for a nice vacation. You get some level of utility and/or enjoyment from the use of the gasoline. If gas went to $40 a gallon tomorrow and our economy shut down I suppose you would still spout the same irrelevant academic crap. Somebody beam up Tim please.