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Just to Put American Gas Prices in Perspective

25 May 2008 · 1 Comment

Borders

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:

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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.

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