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Article #306Re: Yikes! Gas Price $5 Gallon in Canada - Don't Visit Alberta!!
From: Alan S
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 14:02
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 14:02
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On Thu, 01 May 2008 08:02:56 -0500, Jules <jules.richardsonnews@remove.this.gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:53:27 +1000, Alan S wrote: >>>Right! Anywhere that the gas prices are high (i.e., higher than you >>>want) must be communist. >> >> That seems a little shy of the numbers on this list (note >> Cuba and Venezuela:-) >> >> http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ > >Note the: "All prices updated March, 2005" on that article - things have >got more expensive since then :-) > >> United Kingdom $5.79 > >e.g. average price in the UK is currently at 1.08 pounds/litre, which >works out at $8.06 USD per (US) gallon at current exchange rates. > >Is the Canadian gallon the same as the US gallon, the UK gallon, or >something else entirely? $5 CDN seems to be about $4.90 USD... > >cheers > >Jules You're right - missed the date. It's only got worse since of course. Presently AU$1.45-$1.60 here, which works out to about US$5.20-$5.70. If we are communist, I must have missed the revolution... Cheers, Alan, Australia -- http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/ latest: Cambodia http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cambodia.html
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