[thechat] Re: Gasoline/Petrol prices

[javier velasco]

OK, you asked...

As you may know, I've moved to the US, particularly to the State of Maine.

Initially I couldn't make sense of the price of gas due to measurements 
changes...

Once I bought my car and all the paperwork, I went to fill in the 
tank..... only to find out that the prices were riduculous, actually 
half of what I'm used to pay.

Later I've seen how the news in the US people whine about the prices 
growing, lol. Your prices are already subsidized: stop whining, stop 
idling, get a smaller engine, do you really need that V8 for commuting?

chao
javier

Terry Fowler wrote:

>Okay, I'll give it a go: 
>
>I was just wondering this morning how much 
>people are spending to put fossil fuels in their
>automobiles. And I thought it would be interesting
>if we converted our answers into one obscure 
>currrency that none of us use. 
>
>For instance, the cheapest I've seen in the last
>48 hours is 226.678 Albanian Lekes* per gallon. Hmm,
>I guess we'd need to come up with something other
>than gallons and lit[er|re]s. Just to avoid any 
>show of favoritism to one system over the other.
>
>Oh, and I'm thinking of the cheap stuff, not your
>high-octane super premium stuff.
>
>Anybody want to play?
>
>Terry
>
>* http://www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml (the first 
>  currency converter returned by google for the 
>  search string "currency converter")
>
>  
>