b'100 Years: 1923-2024Marketer Member NewsEvents to Remember(Nov 17) Voyager 1 overtook1999 (JAN/FEB WPMN) Two petroleum market- Pioneer 10 as the most distanters were hiking on a mountain path. The trail was man-made object from the solaruneven and filled with rocks and chuckholes. The system, at a distance of 69.419 AU. second marketer yelled to the first, This path (Nov 25) A Russian Proton rocketis not worth it, lets go back and find an easierwas launched from the Baikonurroute. The leader turned and replied, Success UT: (JH) Stage 2 vapor recovery systems wereCosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carryingis measured by obstacles overcome rather still under review, the DAQ Board was unablethe first segment of the Internationalthan heights attained. This is our road to to impose a requirement in the five countiesSpace Station, the 21 ton Zarya Module. JAN/FEB 1999WPMN Cover Clipsuccess! President Eerkes commented, 1998 (Dec 2) Exxon Corporation agreed toThats a remarkable piece of philosophy. What along the Wasatch Front. UPMRA Marketerhave you done with the obstacles in your path?If you Members expressed willingness to move tobuy Mobil Corporation for approximately $75.4 billion,study the lives of successful people in our industry, you will Stage 1, but urged caution in moving quickly to Stage 2.which would make the company the largest corporationsee that none have been free of problems or difficulties. 1999 Legislative Initiatives included the PST Fund. in the US. The companies said they expected to cut WA: wished Washington and all the other member statesabout 9,000 jobs from their combined worldwide(GT) Gasoline, What a Bargin! What might be of the WPMA Federationa very Merry Christmas andworkforce and to close offices, saving $730 million.obvious to a petroleum marketer might not be a Happy and Prosperous New Year. On the business side,obvious to the consumer. The price of gasoline reauthorized UST law and the newly enacted Fuel Tax Eva- in January 1999 was much lower than it was sion Law (tax-at-the-rack) were top concerns that couldin 1981, when President Reagan decontrolled impact petroleum marketers. gasoline. It should have been much higher because of the increase in taxes. Utah, for example, went from 11.0 cents (Dec 23) The Colombian government said it would allowin 1981 to 24.5 cents in 1999.I am proud to be a part of 1998 (Nov 16) The Childrens Television Workshop gasoline and diesel prices to float with internationalthe petroleum industry, which is providing such a necessary launched Elmos World,oil prices starting January 1, 1999. The move endedservice to the American consumer at such a great price. At the famous Sesame Streeta system of artificial price fixing, which had cost thetwice the price it would still be a great bargain.segment lasting from thegovernment more than $3.2 billion in subsidies overPetro Pete: If youre riding ahead of the herd, take a look late 90s to Sesame Streetsthe past five years.back every now and then to make sure its still there.40th anniversary.WPMA News / Winter 202353'