From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 3 18:14:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E7937B6E8; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:14:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00752; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <38C0718C.8D30B673@owp.csus.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:14:36 -0800 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Newton Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koster, K.J." , "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" , Wes Peters Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Newton wrote: > > Fourth, I'm paying $1.48/gal right now, and I want the price to go > > DOWN, not UP. > > I'm paying A$0.83c/L right now, which is roughly A$3.73/gal, which is > roughly US$2.76. That means the US price of petroleum can rise by almost > 100% and people still still drive the kind of distances which usually > constitute international travel. Ug, when I lived in Melbourne ( 92-94 ) I think the price was around A$0.55/L. Of course I think the price back in the states was still around US$0.99/g at the time. Is gas conversion still a big thing? -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message