Hi Gregory -
Actually I think it is 3.98L to the US gallon which means you are paying
about $1.75US per US gallon - which may sound like a lot compared to the
$1.30US we are paying here in Ohio (BTW about a 35% increase from 9 months
ago). On the other hand I doubt you will get much sympathy from our
European listers most of whom are paying about as much for a litre as we in
the US are paying for a gallon. I managed to spend $60+ a few months ago to
fill the tank of a Ford Focus in France (and that was after shopping around
for the best deal), which makes $25 or so poured into Josephine’s tanks
about every 300 miles seem like a bargain…
Cheers - and it can’t last for ever but I guess I’ll enjoy it while it does…
Loudon-
85VDP, Josephine, 68K, loving her cheap fuel more and more…
At 17:03 -0500 12.2.99, Dr. Gregory Andrachuk wrote:>Well, at least the SA government has taken a strong stand against oil
company monopolies! Of course we don’t have price fixing in Canada. The fact
that every single station, no matter what the brand, sells the fuel at
exactly the same price, and raises and lowers the price within, literally,
minutes of the other stations, has no bearing on this. We all know that it
costs the different companies exactly, to the 1/10th of a penny, the same
amount to produce a litre of gasoline, don’t we? Well, don’t we? No price
fixing here. We are now paying, in Victoria, $0.64.9 Canadian per litre of
87 octane unleaded. For US friends: there are a bit more than 4 litres in a
US gallon.
Gregory