Here we go with the price of gas in Europe again. I pay $1,500 a month in health insurance. I'd gladly trade that for $8/gallon gas. Let's compare apples to apples here. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Olson Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:30 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Fuel Price Gouging - Again - It jumped nearly $1 locally That's $8.00 a gallon. Gulp... Jim Arnott wrote: > Folks, > > Please remember that this is a world-wide mailing list. Your paltry > $4.00/gal. is nothing compared to what our European listmembers are > paying. <http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/> > > The US of A still has relatively cheap fuel. $4.00/gal is $1.06/ > liter. Euro is about $1.42 currently. Pound sterling is pegged at 1.79. > > Jim > > On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:24 PM, John Rodgers wrote: > >> Today, Saturday - Birmingham, AL - down US 280 going southeast from >> Interstate 459 - in the area of Inverness, Raceway stations were >> $3.99.9/gal while all others along that stretch were $4.19.9/gal. Some >> stations did not have regular unleaded. Others had ONLY the 87 octane >> unleaded with 10% ethenol. > > |
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