From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 3 21:14:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FD337B6F5; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA25428; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:44:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:44:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joseph Scott Cc: Mark Newton , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koster, K.J." , Wes Peters Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <20000304154419.C24172@freebie.lemis.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> <38C0718C.8D30B673@owp.csus.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <38C0718C.8D30B673@owp.csus.edu> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [*finally* removed -hackers] On Friday, 3 March 2000 at 18:14:36 -0800, Joseph Scott wrote: > > 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? Yes, but becoming less so at the moment. Petrol has gone up from about $0.70 to $0.85, and gas has gone up from $0.20 to $0.40. Ouch. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message