Dear Ms. Drapiza,

        I couldn't disagree more with your e-mail. The price of gasoline
is the cheapest it has been since the 1930s (adjusted for inflation, of
course), leading to an insane wasting of finite natural resource (and
contributing to pollution and global warming to boot). The sane thing to
do would be to gradually institute a dollar a gallon increase in the gas
tax over the next four years, using the money to develop public
transportation and alternative energy sources.

        Best wishes, Bob Frodeman

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Robert Frodeman                                 Southwest Earth Studies
Dept of Philosophy                              June 14-August 9, 1999
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga          http://www.utc.edu/~ses

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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Leani Drapiza wrote:

> THE GREAT "GAS OUT"
> It's time we did something about the price of
> gasoline in America!  We are
> all sick and tired of high prices when there are
> literally *millions* of
> gallons in storage.  Know what was found out?  If there
> was just ONE day when
> no one purchased any gasoline, prices would drop
> drastically.  The so-called
> oil cartel has decided to slow production
> by some 2 million barrels per day to drive up the
> price.  Let's
> see how many Americans we can get to NOT BUY ANY
> GASOLINE on one particular
> day!  Let's have a GAS OUT! Advance notice is very
> important! So ...
>
> Do not buy any gasoline on APRIL 30, 1999!!!!!  Buy
> on the Thursday before,
> or Saturday after.  Do not buy any gasoline on
> FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1999.
>
> Wanna help? Send this message to everyone you know!!
> Ask them to do the
> same. All we need is a few million to participate in
> order to make a
> difference.  And we believe we CAN make a difference.
> It's worth a try!
>
>
>
> Leani Drapiza
> Coordinator, Graduate Studies
> College of Business Administration
> University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
> (423) 755-4169
> (423) 785-2329 FAX
>