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My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

Kraut / Larry Stark wrote:
My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

The price here goes up every week, last week I paid the equivalent of
$8.67 per gallon.

--
Adrian

"Kraut / Larry Stark" wrote in message
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My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

That's no joke. When I got my first Corolla, I could fill it from empty for
$10. Now it takes $30 to fill it when it's already a quarter full.

Joy

On Apr 16, 6:41*pm, "Joy" wrote:
"Kraut / Larry Stark" wrote in messagenews:g48jq69thurgvn71iuh4ij5v1ouk996ltd@4ax .com...



My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

That's no joke. *When I got my first Corolla, I could fill it from empty for
$10. *Now it takes $30 to fill it when it's already a quarter full.

Joy

I'm currently getting six miles per £1, at current exchange rates with
the US that's 3.66 miles per dollar. I'm consciously driving at 60 mph
on motorway trips rather than 70 mph, which is helping.

Jeanette

Kraut / Larry Stark wrote:
My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

Too true, alas! (Aren't they predicting $5.00 a gallon by the end of
the summer?) Of course our European friends have lived with high
gas(petrol) prices for a long time - perhaps that's why they opt for
smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, instead of our American
gas-guzzlers.

Joy wrote:
"Kraut / Larry Stark" wrote in message
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My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

That's no joke. When I got my first Corolla, I could fill it from empty for
$10. Now it takes $30 to fill it when it's already a quarter full.

Joy

How many of the rest of you remember way back to the 1960's, when they
predicted gas prices were likely to rise to sixty-cents a gallon, and
people were saying "no one will ever be willing to pay that much!"?

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Joy wrote:
"Kraut / Larry Stark" wrote in message
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My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

That's no joke. When I got my first Corolla, I could fill it from empty
for $10. Now it takes $30 to fill it when it's already a quarter full.

Joy

How many of the rest of you remember way back to the 1960's, when they
predicted gas prices were likely to rise to sixty-cents a gallon, and
people were saying "no one will ever be willing to pay that much!"?

I do! I remember my husband and I seriously debated whether or not we could
afford to take our planned camping vacation at Lake Tahoe (about a 400 mile
drive, one way).

Joy

On 17/04/2011 1:39 AM, Adrian wrote:
Kraut / Larry Stark wrote:
My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

The price here goes up every week, last week I paid the equivalent of
$8.67 per gallon.

We pay about AUS$1.50 a litre, so thats about AUS$5.67 a gallon. The
Aussie dollar and the US dollar are roughly the same at the moment (ie,
fluctuating within a few cents each way), so haven't bothered to convert
to different currencies.

$8.67 per gallon, or $2.29 per litre is scary!

Yowie

17.4.2011 2:41, Yowie kirjoitti:
On 17/04/2011 1:39 AM, Adrian wrote:
Kraut / Larry Stark wrote:
My wife said "Honey, take me someplace expensive." I took her to the
gas station!

The price here goes up every week, last week I paid the equivalent of
$8.67 per gallon.

We pay about AUS$1.50 a litre, so thats about AUS$5.67 a gallon. The
Aussie dollar and the US dollar are roughly the same at the moment (ie,
fluctuating within a few cents each way), so haven't bothered to convert
to different currencies.

$8.67 per gallon, or $2.29 per litre is scary!

Yowie

Our prices are about the same as Adrian's - EUR 1,55 per litre (for
95E10 gas), which is about USD 2,24 according to the currency converter
at http://www.xe.com/ucc/.
The higher octane gas, 98E5, is at about EUR 1,60 / USD 2,31 per litre.

I don't do gallons as there are various definitions of it. A litre is
always the same whereever you are. According to Wiki, the US liquid
gallon, which seems to be the most widely used, is equal to 3.785411784
litres. And then there's the imperial (UK) gallon, which equals 4.54609
litres.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

--
Christine in Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com

Yowie wrote:

We pay about AUS$1.50 a litre, so thats about AUS$5.67 a gallon. The
Aussie dollar and the US dollar are roughly the same at the moment
(ie, fluctuating within a few cents each way), so haven't bothered to
convert to different currencies.

$8.67 per gallon, or $2.29 per litre is scary!

Yowie

Actually $2.16 AUD per litre. I doubt it will be long before it reaches
and passes $2.29.
(1 US Gallon is 3.785 litres)
--
Adrian