Friday, I was very disturbed to encounter gas at a neighborhood station priced at $4.259/gallon. It was only a couple of weeks ago that we were bracing for $4/gallon, after all.
However, today on a border-hunting mailing list, a link was posted to a photo gallery of one member’s recent trip to Baarle. Included in the gallery is this picture:
Seeing gas priced at 1.513 is refreshing (other than that anomalous 3/10ths of a cent)…until you consider that price is stated as Euros per liter.
Doing the conversions…folks, that there is some $9/gallon gas.
Maybe my local $4.259 doesn’t seem quite as painful now.
This is the gas price in Belgium. In the Netherlands 1.65 euro per liter must be paid.