The Australian Civ Group: the Hydey where are you? Memorial thread

[finbar]

I'll be along just as soon as I change over the gas bottle. The old one just ran out.

[Hydey]

I must get more gas for the ute too

[finbar]

Not at the price it is here, Hydey. A 25-litre bottle of domestic gas costs around $80. In summer, with normal cooking and hot water usage, a bottle lasts around a month. In winter, if you use your gas central heating, a bottle lasts about a week.

[Hydey]

AUTO GAS IS 35 CENTS PER LITRE AT THE MOMENT

[Makeo]

not really???? is it?

[Hydey]

yes it has hovered between 33 and 39 in melbourne for the last few months.
This is much better than unleaded petrol which is $1.07 per litre today.

[finbar]

It's about $1.95 a litre here if you're lucky.

[Hydey]

best you invest in a pushbike then.

[Alexander's Horse]

there's a railway station in his town

[Hydey]

puffing billy wanna be

[Alexander's Horse]

he might be able to get a concession card

[finbar]

It's a very useful railway station. You can catch trains to Rome, Florence and even Venice. Unusual for a railway station in what is a very small town. The next town south, Cortona, about three times the size and a tourist mecca, doesn't even have its own station.

Gas, electricity and petrol are all very expensive here. One local wit suggested that it's the only way the federal government can extract money from the population.

[finbar]

I'll check in at around 1pm/9pm.

[Hydey]

while finbar is catching an old train, hydey is buying a new car.

bye bye old ute

[Alexander's Horse]

thank goodness you finally got rid of that old bomb son