Earl, It IS much worse over here in Europe, with gas retailing at around £0.77pence per LITRE in the UK. I think that works out at around $6 per US gallon! Most of it going in taxes to the government, but petrol companies are crying because they only made £98 per second profit! We're all getting on bicycles! (ever tried visiting a customer 100 miles away on a bike? lol) Go figure as they say! At 13:59 07/05/02 -0500, you wrote: >Jeff, > >That's the answer for which I was looking. I was hoping it not come from >your news brief but from those of us still hurting from the problems, no >longer issues, brought on from this economic situation. > >I guess it's like gas prices going up without our control. I mean, we all >could take a day off from driving and see what way over profitible oil >companies would do. No, we just seem to cruise with our gas guzzlers and >just wait to see what happens after June 1. Last year in Chicago, it was >well up over a dollar and we still paid it while the government said it's >much worse in Europe. > >Hell, I know we all care. However, we're talking about our jobs and friends >here. What to do? > >MoonMan > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d >To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in >the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet >To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: >SET Technet NOMAIL >To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to >[log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest >Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives >Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional >information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 >ext.5315 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------