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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 9/10/2005 at 02:33 PM
Prices are back up to 3.67. *Sigh* Will this never end?
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think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
W0rmW00d
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posted on 16/10/2005 at 08:04 PM
I find it incredible the different perspectives on petrol prices. I was
reading through and thinking how shocking the prices quoted are. Then I
read GothicMormon's post and remembered that those prices were for gallons.
Madness, it is. Madness. $1 a litre? My housemate dreams of that sort of
price. It is about £0.50, if that. Petrol prices here are the equivalent of
about $1.50/l if not more. The cheapest that I have ever seen petrol in
England is around $1/l.
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And the third angel sounded, and a troll army did descend upon the world.
gothicmorman
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posted on 20/10/2005 at 06:11 PM
quote:i saw gass in toronto a
few weeks ago at $2.03. what is that in american... $6? mind you. the
manager is the gas station got fired because of the price he
set.
O.O! 2.03$ *faints* 6.56$ a gallon american!
W0rmW00d - do you buy your petrol in litres or gallons then? I thought it
was still sold by the gallon in England (not that I would know anything
about that but I got that impression from talking to older wiser people)
and of course we must also remember that the american gallon is 3.8 litres
while the british gallon is 4.5 litres. *rolls eyes* but why? who knows!
nostalgiaforinfinity
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Posts: 33 Registered: 5/12/2004 Status: Offline
posted on 21/10/2005 at 12:40 AM
The British gallon wasn't fixed untill 18 something. Before this a gallon
had a variety of meanings depending on what you were measuring and where in
Britain you were measuring it. By the time we got around to settling on an
imperial gallon the US had already standardised the wine gallon (about 0.83
of an imperial gallon). We probably just did it in a general spirit of
bloody mindedness and so we could confuse Americans when we got around to
discovering petrol. I believe Canada also uses the imperial gallon. Isn't
history fun?