Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 09:56:08 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com>
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"Koster, K.J." wrote: > > Oh, those Americans. :-) > > Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands, times > 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands. > > Everyone in the Netherlands drives cars; everyone thinks gas is expensive. > This means that the gas prices in the US can go up 440% and people will > still drive cars and buy gas (and complain about gas prices, of course). First, this off-topic for -hackers, so I've directed replies to -chat if you want to continue. Second, I know people that commute distances that would cross your country. I suspect the average American uses a lot more gas than the average Nederlander. Third, our gas prices here are held down by all sorts of weird government intervention, bizarre market shenanigans, and a public that doesn't understand that the price of gasoline has risen only 4x in the same period that the price of cars has risen 10x. That's certainly NOT a "natural occurence". Fourth, I'm paying $1.48/gal right now, and I want the price to go DOWN, not UP. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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