Re: Welcome to the world of gas at $5.16 / gallon

From: Andy Levy (andy.levy@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 11:31:24 EDT


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01, Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
>
> (Because I'm lazy, I've just copied and pasted my latest blog rant here.
> Enjoy.)
>
> So, yesterday the price of fuel in our area was $1.237 / L (that's
> $4.675 / US gallon). Today, it's $1.366 / L ($5.163 / gal). It spiked by
> 12.9 cents / L at midnight (48.8 cents / gal). No, the price of oil
> hasn't gone up that I know of, but the gas stations are using the excuse
> that it *might*, because there's a hurricane moving towards Texas.

Yesterday, a co-worker was showing me photos from her trip to Sweden
and Norway a couple weeks ago. One photo was from a gas station. After
the exchange rate, converting L to Gal, etc. gas up there was north of
US$10/gal.



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