> 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

I pay somewhere around the average price in the city of Portland, OR, yesterday it was $1.54 for regular unleaded. Supermeganuclear octane is about 20 to 30¢ above that. What really annoys peole, in general, is a sharp increase. If the price slowly rises by 30¢ over a year or so, it tends to not attract much attention. Contrary to this, if it rises by the same amount within a month... boy howdy, there will be news stories galore trying to "get to the bottom" of the reasons behind it.

I've always felt that one particular aspect of gas prices are just stupid. That is the fact that every station everywhere (that I've been to) always have *nine tenths* of a cent on the end. Is that so that they can "fool" everyone into thinking that they're actually paying a whole penny less than what they're charging? What if I was trying to acurately calculate my mileage and I wanted to buy exactly five gallons? The price would be $x.xx5. Who eats the half a penny? Would they round up to the next whole cent? Then they'd be overcharging me. Would they offer me a half cent credit for the next time I come in?

Somehow I doubt that it has ever come up in a gas station before, but with a price that provides no monetary means of paying it in the increment that they advertise, they're just asking for trouble.

Tra "let's see how long Beasty can make quotes in the current manner before the cleverness dissapears, or repetition sets in" nio