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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (56887)	5/15/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

No I know that about gas. I meant about other items, salaries etc. I drove back from Austin to Ca last summer and saw gas go from .99 (Austin) to .96 (NM), 1.06 (Arizona) and 1.16 (Fresno). Then as I was coming into the bay area prices popped to $1.30+. And there wasn't any refinery fires. Of course theres always the regulation excuse but that doesn't explain the Fresno vs. bay area discrepancy. San Francisco has a law that says if any oil company wants to sell gas they can't close any gas stations that are already there, since the entire area is land-locked. I'm not big on conspiracy theories or playing the corporate blame game but its hard for me to believe there isn't any collusion going on here. I just hate to see anything artificial show up in the ppi or cpi.