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Fuel prices are dropping
wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:12:02 -0600, Canuck57 wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), "*e#c" sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True North" wrote: "Canuck57" wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? The easy way to remember is written on the side of a half liter water bottle. 16.5 oz A liter is an oz bigger than a quart and 4 liters is 4 oz more than a gallon. They do use the metric system to scam booze buyers. A "fifth" of whisky is now 750ml and a "gallon" jug of wine is 3 liters. That really seems to be the only major industry here that has gone metric. ************** We got screwed when we converted to metric. With our old Imperial system... a quart was larger than a liter.. but the price stayed the same..to offset conversion they claimed. |
Fuel prices are dropping
In article , princecraft51
@gmail.com says... wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:12:02 -0600, Canuck57 wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), "*e#c" sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True North" wrote: "Canuck57" wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? The easy way to remember is written on the side of a half liter water bottle. 16.5 oz A liter is an oz bigger than a quart and 4 liters is 4 oz more than a gallon. They do use the metric system to scam booze buyers. A "fifth" of whisky is now 750ml and a "gallon" jug of wine is 3 liters. That really seems to be the only major industry here that has gone metric. ************** We got screwed when we converted to metric. With our old Imperial system... a quart was larger than a liter.. but the price stayed the same..to offset conversion they claimed. You like getting screwed, at least you do if it's Harry doing the screwing. |
Fuel prices are dropping
"Hairy Kraut" wrote in message ... In article , princecraft51 @gmail.com says... wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:12:02 -0600, Canuck57 wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), "*e#c" sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True North" wrote: "Canuck57" wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? The easy way to remember is written on the side of a half liter water bottle. 16.5 oz A liter is an oz bigger than a quart and 4 liters is 4 oz more than a gallon. They do use the metric system to scam booze buyers. A "fifth" of whisky is now 750ml and a "gallon" jug of wine is 3 liters. That really seems to be the only major industry here that has gone metric. ************** We got screwed when we converted to metric. With our old Imperial system... a quart was larger than a liter.. but the price stayed the same..to offset conversion they claimed. You like getting screwed, at least you do if it's Harry doing the screwing. ********* Projecting again, Kevin? |
Fuel prices are dropping
In article , princecraft51
@gmail.com says... "Hairy Kraut" wrote in message ... In article , princecraft51 @gmail.com says... wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:12:02 -0600, Canuck57 wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), "*e#c" sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True North" wrote: "Canuck57" wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? The easy way to remember is written on the side of a half liter water bottle. 16.5 oz A liter is an oz bigger than a quart and 4 liters is 4 oz more than a gallon. They do use the metric system to scam booze buyers. A "fifth" of whisky is now 750ml and a "gallon" jug of wine is 3 liters. That really seems to be the only major industry here that has gone metric. ************** We got screwed when we converted to metric. With our old Imperial system... a quart was larger than a liter.. but the price stayed the same..to offset conversion they claimed. You like getting screwed, at least you do if it's Harry doing the screwing. ********* Projecting again, Kevin? Time to prove you are a coward again! Don, care to bet $500 that I'm not Kevin? |
Fuel prices are dropping
On May 11, 4:12*pm, Canuck57 wrote:
On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), "*e#c" sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True North" wrote: "Canuck57" *wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne * wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. *Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. * After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol *blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. *Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . * Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. *Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. *US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. *But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? -- Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. *So why do we allow our governments more debt? *Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. That's because most Amereecans think they know it all. That's why they're hated so much all over the world. Arrogance, pure and simple. It IS their downfall. |
Fuel prices are dropping
On May 12, 4:36*pm, Harryk wrote:
wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:12:02 -0600, wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True *wrote: "Canuck57" *wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne * *wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. *Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. * After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol *blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. *Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . * *Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. *Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. *US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. *But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? The easy way to remember is written on the side of a half liter water bottle. 16.5 oz A liter is an oz bigger than a quart and 4 liters is 4 oz more than a gallon. They do use the metric system to scam booze buyers. A "fifth" of whisky is now 750ml and a "gallon" jug of wine is 3 liters. That really seems to be the only major industry here that has gone metric. A "gallon" jug of wine? Good stuff, eh? * :)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No doubt his comes from a cardboard box..... |
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Fuel prices are dropping
On 5/14/2011 1:23 PM, *e#c wrote:
On May 11, 4:12 pm, wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True wrote: "Canuck57" wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? -- Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. So why do we allow our governments more debt? Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. That's because most Amereecans think they know it all. That's why they're hated so much all over the world. Arrogance, pure and simple. It IS their downfall. How you guys doing with your asbestos mining. |
Fuel prices are dropping
On May 14, 2:20*pm, I_am_Tosk wrote:
In article 71c78dfb-a56d-48e2-b26f-5dad23fe6d20 @k22g2000yqh.googlegroups.com, says... On May 11, 4:12*pm, Canuck57 wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), "*e#c" sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True North" wrote: "Canuck57" *wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne * wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. *Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. * After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol *blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. *Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . * Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. *Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. *US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. *But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? -- Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. *So why do we allow our governments more debt? *Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - *Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official *spelling. That's because most Amereecans think they know it all. That's why they're hated so much all over the world. Arrogance, pure and simple. It IS their downfall. In all fairness, if we are such assholes, why does the whole world talk to us, flock to us, and want to be us? -- Team Rowdy Mouse, Banned from the Mall for life!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I did not say Americans are assholes....just arrogant. I travelled to Jamiaca in 1981, and several Americans were calling the Jamaicans " boy"....thats why they LOVE the Canadians, and the Germans. Thats why everyone loves Canadians. We dont pull that ****. |
Fuel prices are dropping
On May 14, 2:57*pm, Disgruntled wrote:
On 5/14/2011 1:23 PM, *e#c wrote: On May 11, 4:12 pm, *wrote: On 11/05/2011 8:23 AM, Percy wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT), sent the following message On May 10, 2:18 pm, "True *wrote: "Canuck57" *wrote in ... On 09/05/2011 8:13 PM, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 7:49 pm, wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:39:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On May 9, 3:42 pm, Wayne * *wrote= : We drove back from Tampa today and saw several gas stations at $3.8= 5, down from 4+ last week. *Later I did some price shopping for dies= el on the telephone since we are getting ready to head north for the summ= er on the trawler. * After the first couple of calls I was expecting something close to $4 but literally struck oil on the fourth call. We've got a truck arriving at the house tomorrow morning for $3.69/gal, all taxes included. Thats funny, the price of gas up here is set to go UP 6.4 cents per litre overnight. This, blamed on the RISE in the price of a barrel o= f oil. The news says the average is down a penny but the stations near me ar= e still the same from what I can tell. I would like to see it dip, even if only for a few days because I am down to my last couple cans of ga= s for the boat. $4.09 for 89octane 10% ethanol *blend here. Last time I bought boat gas I got 50 gallons for $3.57 or so. It lasted me almost 2 months but we were busy and did not boat as much as usual. If I don't see a big drop soon I may just buy a few cans and watch the price. I would buy right now. *Unions in Yemen have just caused some shutdowns= . * *Libya taps are off, a Canadian pipeline also went down for major unplanned maintenance and news is a shortage is coming from Saudi. By August you might very well see north of $5 at the pumps because add in currency devaluation (inflation). -- ******************* Already paying the equivalent of $5.50 US for a yankee gallon here.- Hide= quoted text - - Show quoted text - It's going up another 1.41 cents per litre. New price = $1.41.6 per litre. Whats a litre? About a US quart. *Everyone else in the world uses metric, not imperial or US measurement. *US is a holdout in some businesses. Medicine, science and much international trade is now in metric. Take the UK, even they now do litres having abandoned the Imperial measure some time ago. Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official spelling. So for a rough estimate, 4 litres is a US gallon. *But to be entirely accurate, 3.7854118 litres in a US gallon. 1 Liter is 1.05668821 US quarts. Clear as mud? -- Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. *So why do we allow our governments more debt? *Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - * Litre is the common spelling, however for US, liter is the official * spelling. That's because most Amereecans think they know it all. That's why they're hated so much all over the world. Arrogance, pure and simple. It IS their downfall. How you guys doing with your asbestos mining.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Ummm...genius, we stopped that **** years ago....but you knew that, huh? Are you sure you didnt work in a ship yard in your younger years? You sure seem to have some brain damage. |
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