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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3147021" data-attributes="member: 25191">When the massive tankers leave the end of the pipeline at Valdes, Alaska, the oil that becomes the gasoline for everyone is exactly the same. Then, in the refining process, the Big Names drop in a few quarts of their own proprietary, pie-in-the-sky magic elixir into the massive tank and charge $.50 a gallon more than the less well-backed competition that doesn’t have the money to make their product seem so wonderful, even though surveys have shown the different blends are almost the same.So it goes for those who MUST have the nutritional value of “organic” fruit when, at the last count I was aware of, 67 scientific articles revealed there is NO MORE NUTRITIONAL VALUE in “organically” grown fruit than any other. Some folks just like to spend money, unnecessarily. It just gives them a feeling of fitting in with the “right” crowd.And, have some bottled water companies not found themselves in court for selling “tap” water that anyone can get from their kitchen sink? P.T. Barnum did not say, "There's a sucker born every minute." But, someone who worked for him did, and he was right.But I guess as long as we’re a “kinder, gentler” world, with many of us prone to believe everything we read out of the unquenchable desire to be “fair” toward every concept that comes down the pike (even when diametrically opposed to conventional wisdom), we will be ripe for the pickin’s.Bill</blockquote>

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