From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 3 13:12:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.on.home.com (ha1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com [24.2.9.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FC237B6AB for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulg@interlog.com) Received: from interlog.com ([24.65.50.161]) by mail.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <20000303211225.YQNG16527.mail.rdc1.on.home.com@interlog.com>; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:12:25 -0800 Message-ID: <38C0274A.D8E54239@interlog.com> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:57:46 -0500 From: Paul Griffith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 i86pc) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: Brian Beattie , chat@freebsd.org, "Koster, K.J." Subject: Re: Great Worldwide Gas Out References: <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <20000303183214.A327@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You mean after the Gulf War, we still have to deal with this sh*t. Hell might as well let Iraq start pumping oil again. Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 10:13:20AM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > "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. > > > > > > It's 4.54 litres per *imperial* gallon, a US gallon is smaller (20% > smaller) coz their pints are smaller (16 fluid oz. against 20). So, > that's 3.63 litres per US gallon, or US$4.36 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. > > > > > > > Hmmm, the idea that the last "Great Gas-out" and any effect on prices, > > is, ... amusing ... at best. "Those Americans" may be right for different > > reasons. > > > > > -- > > > "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 > > > > > > > Brian Beattie | The only problem with > > beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... > > www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > -- > Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? > Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? > BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? > -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Paul Griffith paulg@interlog.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message