> Does anyone in the States feel really annoyed at how much they have to pay for a gallon of gas?
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> Spare a thought for us Brits. We currently pay on average 90 pence for a litre.
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> How much is that to an American?
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> Well, one US gallon is approx 3.8 litres so that's £3.42 already. At an estimated exchange rate of one pound Sterling to 1.60 US dollars we are talking $5.47. and that's just on average!
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> Anybody out there ever paid more than $2 a gallon?
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> Bea "content with your lot and don't be lu" sty

Well, I live in San Diego County (southern California), and the gas prices are thisclose to being two bucks. I think, at some stores, they may have already gone over. The prices up in Orange County are cheaper, though.

One reason why I think everyone's so shocked about it all even though most other countries pay more is that for decades we went along with prices at four bits a gallon, and now we're up to sixteen. Prices have quadrupled in the past thirty years, and before that it was going along nice and steady. Of course, I'm just quoting what I know, and Howard may pop up and show me wrong, and that's OK, but for now, history went the way I say it.

-eric "can't really divide his name up cleverly, can he," sleator
Mon 26 Jun A.D. 2000