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Originally posted by MikeH
$2 a gallon expensive?
$2 a gallon expensive?
From what I understand now a pipeline burst somewhere and that's why half of Phoenix has no gas now. At least it's not a powergrid right?
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It is for Arizona... and it is because I'm poor.
From what I understand now a pipeline burst somewhere and that's why half of Phoenix has no gas now. At least it's not a powergrid right?"Luck's last match struck in the pouring down wind." - Chris Cornell, "Mindriot" -
Like I said, it's at least $5 a gallon here so it seems really wierd someone complaining about it when it's so ludicrously cheap (to us)Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Now you know why its an economic viable option to drive a SUV in the US
Uh no! 2$ a gallon
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Yep.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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why the heck do you call it Gas?Comment
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At the moment, gas is NOK 8.49 per liter where I am.
That's almost exactly € 1 and about US$ 1.15.
So, that's over $ 4 per gallon.
-But then again, I make at least three times more than the average American factory worker, so I guess I can afford to pay somewhat higher prices...
All things told, I think the cost of living pretty much evens out in the long run. The thing is, I can go to America and have a field day buying stuff because to me everything's so cheap over there, but an American coming to Norway is going to get ripped off and skinned alive! -Economically speaking, that is...
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Because it's a liquid!Originally posted by Demerzel
why the heck do you call it Gas?
Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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I remember when it used to be a tupence for a hogshead worth of octane distilate.
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True, but you could only drive about 6 furlongs before you had to refill the tank."Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.
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I thought it was a thread about flatulence, but then realized it was just the usual 'my petrol isn't quite free, however can I continue driving an unnecessarily large fuel guzzling ecodamage wagon?' whine by Americans.
Move to Eire/Ireland. Then you'd have prices to complain about.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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Dang, $ 2 per gallon... if you drive a Nissan Micra, you wouldn't have to spend more than $ 10 per year on petrol
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So, because Europe was unable/unwilling to do something about gas prices, the US should do the same, until we pay 5 bucks a gallon?Originally posted by molly bloom
I thought it was a thread about flatulence, but then realized it was just the usual 'my petrol isn't quite free, however can I continue driving an unnecessarily large fuel guzzling ecodamage wagon?' whine by Americans.Comment
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Our prices are deliberately that high, most of it is tax, to discourage driving and encourage people to have more efficient cars. It's more a question of us being willing to do it.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Now, be fair. Europeans did something about gas prices: they shot them through the roof by taxing the hell out of petrol. Of course, they also then spent the money on alternative transportation infrastructures like metros and inter-urban rail, and as a result continue to have actual cities that people actually want to live in (as opposed to those sunbelt suburbs-on-steroids we call cities in the US, to which people fled from the dying cities of the northeast and midwest). Having just returned from driving on the absolute worst f*cking nightmare of a landscape that the automobile ever inflicted on any society -- I speak, of course, of US 19 north of Tampa -- I have to think that maybe the Eurocoms are onto something.Originally posted by Verto
So, because Europe was unable/unwilling to do something about gas prices, the US should do the same, until we pay 5 bucks a gallon?"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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If gas ever cost $5 per gallon here there would be politicians hanging from the street lights.Originally posted by MikeH
It's probably £3.50 a gallon here now. $5?
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