bildan wrote:
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I sort of liked the "tongue in cheek" idea expressed in (I think) the
San Jose, CA Mercury News that gasoline taxes should escalate with the
amount purchased. For example, 5 gallons would cost $5 while 50
gallons would cost $500. Of course a Hummer could be driven station
to station buying 5 gallons at each but that would get tiresome in a
hurry. Meanwhile, the owner of a super-efficient vehicle would be
rewarded with $1/Gal gas.

...which reminds me - after taking a joyride out to a local field not 30
miles away, Quanah (named for an illustrious Indian chief of yore) and
looking over the virtual time capsule in the flight lounge, with its
newpaper cuttings - one describing the opening of the field in 1941 and
the intrepid band of would be pilots who bought a Cub (??) to train
with, onto an obit of one of this gang when he died in his nineties
after a sixty six year marriage (I noticed he did not survive his wife
by long). Oops! I am drifting away. When I put the plane away and noted
the Hobbs and Tach time in my log, I stopped for tea
(Stands the Clock at Half Past Three?) and noticed a convoy of two rag
tops which looked remarkably like the Mercedes sub-compact - is it the
Smart Car? The logo said Coco Kandi ( I am not making this up)
These were the first I'd seen in this little town. One driver said
they go for $6 or $7 grand in Oklahoma City (can this be right?)

Brian W