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don't resort to any kind of fact or law twisting in my practice. I can't. I do appeals. I have to back every assertion I make up with citations to established authority. I don't play word games an I don't try and lie or sneak falsehoods into my arguments. Unlike cops and prosecutors, I try and do everything by the book and above board. Sorry if standing up for the rights of my clients offends you.
Reed, take a cleansing breath, that’s right slowly inhale through the nose, now exhale via your mouth… I said slowly! There now, do you feel better, a little more relaxed?
Misconception mania as taken over my life today, gezzemrice.
Nothing offends me in your daily duties standing up for the rights of your clients. Nor did I ever assert that you make up stuff out of whole cloth. However relativeisom has crept into your thinking, and that is what I was alluding to. My apologies are offered.
I get that as the base price of the fuel increases while the grade 10 cent difference remains constant, that the perception is one is getting a better deal for higher octane fuel. ,
My point is: relativeisom is irreletivant. When gas was a buck a gallon that 10 cents per grade jump looked to be an expensive up grade, at your 4 bucks a gallon relatively speaking the delta 10 begins to look pidally in comparison. However there is always that constant 10 cent step increase per gallon that as you have noticed that never appears to change. So if 91 was a buck a gallon a year ago, and is now four bucks a gallon, that 20 cents is still packed into the pricing, and is still 20 cents of purchasing power, and over the course of a year’s driving figuring a weekly fill-up of say 36 gallons, the difference between the rot gut & 91 is 380 bucks for a year regardless of the base price of the fuel. If an engine can run efficiently on a lower grade of fuel, than keep the 10 or 20 cents per gallon in your pocket, and out of Exxon-Mobil’s.
Folks fall for this pricing relativeisom all the time with all kinds of purchases. $380 here & $380 there, pretty soon we are talking real money.
Now, I’m headed up stairs to the kitchen for a nicely chilled Sam Adams Boston Larger. I invite you to join me as I hoist a few.
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