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Subject: OT was RE: [Leica] Re: M8 review - now fuel costs
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue Aug 7 22:37:11 2007
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The price in the Netherlands right now is about 1.40 EUR/liter (Euro 95, 
what you folks in the US would call regular unleaded). At current 
exchange rates, that is about $7.20/gallon.

Gasoline is far too cheap in the US.

Nathan

G Hopkinson wrote:
> About USD $4.20 for a US gallon for unleaded here in Aus, currently. 
> AUD $1.30 a litre, of which 38c per litre is excise, then the excise is 
> taxed along with the rest.
>
> I hope some of the Europeans tell us they are paying more!
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M8 review - getting to love the Leica
>
> I think $2.65 a gallon is unbelievably cheap.... I pay over $5 a gallon.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On 8/3/07, Harrison McClary <lists@mcclary.net> wrote:
>   
>> I bought gas the other day and thought 2.65 a gallon was cheap...I NEVER
>> thought I'd think 2.65 a gallon was cheap. LOL
>>
>> Sonny Carter wrote:
>>     
>>> On 8/2/07, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Aug 2, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>>
>>>> bought in a duty free shop for the pricely sum of $154.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>> Yeah and that's when a $100 suit did not cost $600.  Regular gas was 29
>>> cents a gallon.
>>>
>>>       
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: M8 review - getting to love the Leica)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Re: M8 review - getting to love the Leica)
Message from lists at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary) ([Leica] Re: M8 review - getting to love the Leica)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Re: M8 review - getting to love the Leica)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) (OT was RE: [Leica] Re: M8 review - now fuel costs)