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Skriven 2010-01-13 14:11:59 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 3103 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: "Flying is the safest way to fly" (was: The Evil That Men Do)
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12 Jan 10 05:47, Bob Ackley wrote to Roy Witt:

 BA> Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Bob Ackley:

 BA>>> the last time I noted such things the price at the on-base
 BA>>> station at Offutt AFB (supposedly cheaper than off-base
 BA>>> stations) was about $.10/gallon higher than the price at
 BA>>> the convenience store in Malvern, IA.

 RW>> On-base fuel began to rival the local prices about 7 or 8
 RW>> years ago. Don't know why, but it wasn't unusual to see
 RW>> Marines filling up at the cheaper gas stations near the
 RW>> Miramar Marine Base in San Diego.

 BA> The 'why' is easy: political pressure from the state governments,
 BA> which would also like to eliminate base exchanges and commissaries
 BA> (no sales tax and supposedly 'unfair' competition with their local
 BA> merchants).

Unfairness was only known by those who benefitted from the lower prices
there. Bragging about them to the public meant they'd go away, since those
who didnt' benefit from those lower prices and their competition, were
footing the bill. When the Navy decided to give up the base to the
Marines, those same taxpayers didn't want that base there anymore, citing
false claims that helicopters make more noise pollution than F16s. I lived
under the umbrella of both modes of flight and can state for the record
that helicopters were as quiet as titmouse's compared to those damned
F16s.

 BA> Note that I determined years ago that there wasn't anything in the
 BA> base exchange that I needed that I couldn't find comparably priced
 BA> off base, and that any savings in the commissary weren't worth the
 BA> trip and the hassle of getting in and out of the place.  I haven't
 BA> shopped in either the exchange or the commissary at Offutt for
 BA> decades.  I used to get flyers from the exchange system telling me
 BA> about all the great deals they had on things I didn't want or need; I
 BA> finally called their 800 number and explained that I didn't shop in
 BA> the exchange and they could save a little money by not sending me
 BA> those flyers, and they stopped sending those flyers.

I wish I could convince the Post Office not to deliver any advertisers
flyers here...that would save me a stop at the trash can on the way back
from the mail box.

                R\%/itt

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