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To: Wait4Truth
Alaskan govt is funded by oil revenue. Double edge sword here also. I remember paying $4.95 a gal to fill up my snowmachine in a bush community 100 miles from anch several years back. It's 3 bucks in my village now; higher it goes; yu back off on consumption.

Last year, all the repub & dem politicians could talk about was how badly alaska needed state sales, income, and property taxes. Meek as church mice now about the issue; so the money must be really rolling in.

Guess i'd much rather pay 350/gal for gas than 10,000 in increased taxes.

10 posted on 10/09/2004 8:35:33 AM PDT by Eska
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To: Eska

It's $2.40 here for ultra high-test ethyl. $2 for regular. They said it is $5 in the villages depending on remoteness and as much as $7 in fly-in villages. The villages might be inconvenienced if gasoline is cut off by excessive price or lack of supply, but Fairbanks would be out of business. We're not there yet; Fairbanks could pay $5 without disenfranchising more than a few citizens.


14 posted on 10/09/2004 8:59:37 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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