Re: gas up 7 cents

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From: JohnL
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:13

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...sure, when they increase the price of a liter of gas by a 5 cents,
it's really (.05 x 4.54 =) .23 cents a gallon, we never got riped off
like that when it was in gallons because it would be too obvious a ripe
off.

Zaphod wrote:

> I'm glad we use the metric gallon.
> Make life so simple.
>
> Chris wrote:
>
> >>              .79 x 4.54 = $3.59 an imperial gallon.
> >>
> >
> >
> >   I hope your not suggesting that as a compairison to gas prices
> >   south of the boarder -- because they don't use imperial gallons.
> >   .79 x 3.7843 = $2.99
> >

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