Gas prices

[pnutts]

3 hours ago, RaymondG said:

It's funny that...

 

As you step up to many urinals in the US you are told that it's a one gallon = 3.9 ;iter (sic) flush!

 

3.785 it is, then.

 

And by the way, the dearest US fuel I struck (87 octane, of course) during my last trip was in mid-July along the Sierra Nevada and getting close to Yosemite, $5 per US gallon. I had seen dearer in Canada, of course.

You are surprised that Urinals - probably made in China or Mexico - have wrong info on them!   Then again many Yanks can not count nor spell neither.

[shali]

When I bought the car I currently drive (20 years ago) it cost me a whole 9.00 to fill it up with mid-grade fuel.  At the height of the gas price hikes it cost over 40.00 to fill (I always refilled it when it got to half a tank so I wouldn't know the full cost of filling the tank) with mid-grade.  Now gas is as cheap as it was in 1999.  i remember that because just before my mother died she complained about the price of gas (at the time it was 1.32 a gallon) and she thought that was HORRIBLE!  When I first started driving, gas was about .55 cents a gallon and I remember going to New York, via Canada and paying about that much per litre and thinking "I'm glad we don't live in Canada!"

[Precision]

2 hours ago, pnutts said:

You are surprised that Urinals - probably made in China or Mexico - have wrong info on them!   Then again many Yanks can not count nor spell neither.

 

Hey Bro. Peter...My terlet is spelt correctly... Yerinal     

Edited February 21, 2016 by Precision

[Vido]

The price of food,gas,petrol has risen exponentially high here in South Africa, almost double the inflation rate. 

[Witness1970]

On 2/14/2016 at 8:44 AM, Peanuts said:

Is that good or bad compared to what you normally pay?

 

gallons confuse me, all our prices are in litres. Currently it's about £1 a litre here, so I guess that's about US$1.5 

Think of a gallon as almost 4 liters.  That may help.

[RaymondG]

I gather prices are going up a bit, or have been over the last month or so...

 

What's the latest with that?

[Old]

17 hours ago, RaymondG said:

I gather prices are going up a bit, or have been over the last month or so...

 

What's the latest with that?

I would like to say it is because they can, but it appears there are economic reasons for the rise, at least here in the US.

http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2016/03/gas_prices_are_on_the_march_to_top_2_a_gallon_here.html

[RaymondG]

Thanks, Jerry...

 

Though it's worse than it was, it looks like it won't get much worse than now in the time I'm there.