Posted on 09/23/2005 1:01:48 PM PDT by msnimje
>Don't school buses fill up from their municipality maintenance facilities? How often are they refilled? If the refilling is not daily, how does leaving the municipal gas unused help the rest of us?<
Where do you think the gas for the maintenance facility comes from? 1000 buses running using 20 gallons a day is 20,000 gallons a day.At 5 miles per gallon that is a realistic number.
Back in the 1970s and early 80s you could always count on a few days a year being called on account of snow.
The last big nasty snow that closed schools that I can remember also pretty much closed the entire city - January 1996 I think.
By driving down the demand for two days a week....duh!!!!!!
IF true than Perdue is a nutbag.
Will never was much of a center.
It fits right in with 10,000 dead, New Orleans being underwater for at least 90 days, and Bush not caring about Blacks.
Her name is Anne.
Dropping energy in one place almost always means a corresponding increase somewhere else.
Good point.
At the end of the day, this will have ZERO effect on the availability and price of gas at the corner station.
Busses run on disel and fill up at their central garage from a big tank(s) that are supplied by contract negotiated long ago.
>In Texas, it's $20,000 fine per price gouging incident.
Georgia needs a similar law.,
Define price gouging?
When was the last time you say EVERY student at school driven to school in a bus? If Mom/Dad doesn't have to go by school (perhaps, even they don't have to drive anywhere but Johnny's school?) maybe the trip to the gas station would be delayed just a little bit.....it can add up...
As far as my school district is concerned everyone is in walking distance and the bus thing is a joke. I believe in my town alone the contract is one million dollars.
What do the kids get? A bus trip that takes longer then walking. Not to mention the time the children spend on the bus waiting to be embarked by a "thoughtful" school employee.
Its a complete waste in my area.
I just got back. I filled up. My husband and I will commute together (sucks because that means I need to go to work at 5:00AM). We can last almost two weeks with both cars filled up.
In Texas, it's $20,000 fine per price gouging incident.
I wonder what the gladiators would do. No wonder they're not around anymore.
If I didn't live in a school busing area, I would ride my bike or walk. Rain, sun, heat, cold.
Cabarrus Country (outside Charlotte, NC) schools have three days of fuel left and are considering closing school next week as well (overheard on Charlotte, NC radio station this afternoon).
See post 131 and then tell me it won't help......besides, not all school buses are diesel....
Well, they have to follow wholesale prices. They can raise prices based on wholesale...clever. If you capped the prices, there would be no gas after a while.
It's true, the schools where I live are closed Monday & Tuesday as well as all extra-curricular activites. It's all about gasoline/diesel.
This isn't the 50's where mothers stayed home so closing school was no big deal. Many of the kids are still going to have to be driven to daycare (in their individual cars instead of by bus). A parent whose kid rode the bus will now have to drive to daycare, which means they will need gas.
When people hear any indication of a gas shortage, the natural instinct is to fill up their tanks even if they are far from empty.
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