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Totally OT: Gas prices
« on: April 25, 2006, 09:38:11 am »
This is the anything goes forum, right?

So what are folks paying for gas? It cost me $40.50 to fill up my car this morning (and I don't drive a SUV!). Jeez. $2.89/gal for regular here in Portland, ME.

BTW, for anyone who is interested, lobster is $7.99/lb at the fish store, $5.50/lb from the guy in the truck on the side of the road.

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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2006, 09:43:14 am »
Majorly!  I paid $17.20 to some guy this morning to travel 15km and I don't even own a car!
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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2006, 09:53:06 am »
Well, lnicoll, if a gallon is 4 liters, you're still better off than I am, because here in France we now pay 1,30 Euros for a liter (= $ 1,50)! Shit.
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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2006, 09:59:44 am »
Well, lnicoll, if a gallon is 4 liters, you're still better off than I am, because here in France we now pay 1,30 Euros for a liter (= $ 1,50)! Shit.

She-yit, that's hard.  I thought it was bad enough in Australia - AU$1.40/litre (US$4.20/gl).
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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2006, 10:26:26 am »
I keep telling myself it's okay...last summer when we had the car in Norway (we bought it in Sweden) it cost me $80 to fill it up. I am trying to remember what the price was-- 11 NKR/L, I think.
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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2006, 10:45:12 am »
it's $2.79 a gallon here...

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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2006, 10:56:27 am »
It's $3.15 here....   ???

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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2006, 11:03:11 am »
It's $3.15 here....   ???

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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2006, 11:06:54 am »
$3.09 here in Santa Clara, CA.  The most expensive I have ever seen.  The cheapest time I remembered was back in 1999, $0.75 in NC.

I should work from home more to save on the gas.  :P

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Re: Totally OT: Gas prices
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2006, 11:10:03 am »
$3.09 here in Santa Clara, CA.  The most expensive I have ever seen.  The cheapest time I remembered was back in 1999, $0.75 in NC.


Was it really under a dollar in 1999? I have a hard time remembering those days...

When I was in college, I could fill my car for $5 and believe me, I had a BOAT (it was my grandmother's old car).
Of course, I went to college in a prior century  ;)
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