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  Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices

  http://www.leap2020.eu/index.php?action=breve&id_article=939...
  198 days ago in LEAP/Europe 2020 · Authority: 171

  Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials. The pumps, throwbacks to a bygone era on the American road, are difficult and expensive to upgrade, and replacing them is often out of the question for station owners who are still just scraping by... Read
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  Y2K At The Gas Pump

  http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2008/05/y2k-at-gas-pump.html
  199 days ago in piglipstick · Authority: 33

  Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices "REARDAN, Wash. (AP) — Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials. The pumps, throwbacks to a bygone era on the American road, are difficult and expensive to upgrade, and replacing them is often out of the question for station owners who are still just scraping by. Many of the same pumps can only count up to $99.99 for the total sale, preventing owners of some SUVs, vans, trucks and tractor-trailers to fill their tanks all the way. As many as 8,500 of the nation's 170,000 service stations have old-style meters that need to be fixed — about 17,000 individual pumps, said Bob Renkes, executive vice president of the Petroleum Equipment Institute of Tulsa." I remember when we used to be able to take road trip vacations. So why are those dials spinning like mad? Dave Lindorff at Counterpunch says it's the direct result of all war, all the time. Guess who's buddies are making a killing? Fear at the Pump "In an article titled “Worried About the Price of Gas? End US Wars,” Hussein-Zadeh writes, “Soon after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq the price of oil began to escalate in tandem with the escalation of war and political turbulence in the Middle East.” Furthermore, he says, “Anytime there is a renewed US military threat against Iran, fuel prices move up several notches.” If the US were to actually make good on Bush’s and Cheney’s threats to attack Iran, in Hussein-Zadeh’s view “the sky would be the limit” to oil prices, with $200/barrel being a starting point. The dollar’s fall, too, is significantly a result of the wars—particularly the Iraq War, he says. That war has been costing the US $200 billion a year, all in borrowed funds. That in itself is a huge hole that has to be funded by borrowing from China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and other nations. But as Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz has pointed out, the true cost of the Iraq War, when interest on debt, health costs of injured veterans and other long-term costs are factored in, is more like $3 trillion and rising."
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  Old fashioned gas pumps can't handle prices?

  http://blog.mattslocallist.com/2008/05/17/old-fashioned-gas-...
  199 days ago in Welcome to Matt's Local List E-Journal of Michigan Current Events and Beyond! · Authority: 2

  Old fashioned gas pumps can't handle prices? News From Reuters "Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials."
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  3.99問題

  http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hozawa/20080517
  200 days ago in hozawaの日記 · Authority: 1

  ２０００年問題のように、米国では３．９９問題が起こっている。 ３．９９問題？と思われる方は多くいると思う。これはガソリンの価格が＄３．９９／ガロンを超えると、古いガソリンポンプが計算できなくなる問題。関連して９９．９９問題もある。これは、合計金額が＄９９．９９までしか対応していないと言うことが。 新しいのに変えれば良いのではと思うが、ポンプが高いので田舎のガスステーションではなかなか買え変えることができないそうだ。 http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-05-17-old-gas-pumps_N.htm 話は変わるが、日本で再びお見合いで流行し始めているらしい。ただし、結婚を希望している男女がお見合いするのではなく、その親がするそうだ。最近の団地やマンションでは近所付き合いが無くなってしまったために、紹介する人がいなくなってしまった。そのために、親向けにお見合いパーティをして、自分の子に良い相手を探すそうだ。 http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/s/article/2008051790140809.html

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