HIGHEST GAS PRICES

[Philip Procter]

What's the highest gas prices in your area (converted to $US, please).
South of Buffalo, NY we're looking at $3.93 for 93 oct. premium.

pp

 

[mark jb]

What's the highest gas prices in your area (converted to $US, please).

South of Buffalo, NY we're looking at $3.93 for 93 oct. premium.

Actually, in Syd, Australia, we're getting similar prices for 98oct premium.
(Around $1.36/litre, 3.8 litres/gal, $1 AUD = 76c USD)

Yours is evidently going up a fair bit faster than ours, last time I checked
we were paying around 30c aust a litre more than you, all converted.

-mark

 

[John]

What's the highest gas prices in your area (converted to $US, please).
South of Buffalo, NY we're looking at $3.93 for 93 oct. premium.

Boston area I've seen 3.65

 

[ZZ]

What's the highest gas prices in your area (converted to $US, please).
South of Buffalo, NY we're looking at $3.93 for 93 oct. premium.

pp

Here in Las Vegas, NV, the highest I saw in the NW valley was 3.19 for
91 oct. Reg grade was 2.99 and mid grade was 3.09.

 

[Blair Baucom]

Just go to http://www.gasbuddy.com/ or www.gaspricewatch.com to find out the
price situation of the United States and the first also gives prices in
Canada. Here the price changes daily if not more often and it is easier to
track on these sites.

Blair

 

[mike]

Here in New Zealand
At approx NZ$1 = US$0.70
US$4.18/gallon for 96 octane (NZ$1.579/liter)
US$4.05/gallon for 91 octane (NZ$1.529/liter)
& 40% of these are taxes

-Mike

 

[/\\/ / & E]

What's the highest gas prices in your area (converted to $US, please).
South of Buffalo, NY we're looking at $3.93 for 93 oct. premium.

pp

How my heart bleeds for you Yanks?

We, in the UK are paying £1 per litre & there are 4.56 of those to a UK
gallon.

Stop bitching ffs.

 

[Mike Lloyd]

but for comparison we'd need to think in U.S. Gallons, otherwise we'd have
to increase our ammount accordingly so the price diff. would be offset.

 

[John]

How my heart bleeds for you Yanks?

We, in the UK are paying £1 per litre & there are 4.56 of those to a UK
gallon.

Stop bitching ffs.

I'll gladly pay $4.56/gal if we had a half decent public transportation and
I didn't have to pay for health insurance every month!

 

[Grolsch]

Hey buddy, that's 4 pounds, 56 pence per Imperial gallon, thats about 9.00
USD per Imperial gallon

Hey all you americans, why don't you make it easy on yourself and use
measurement systems the WHOLE WORLD uses instead of a stupid out of sync
system you invented, let's see um how about METRIC. We are all tired of
converting so y'all can understand, eh!

 

[Mike Lloyd]

Well.. it's called the ENGLISH SYSTEM for a reason... as in the imperial
bittish used it when they colonized us. Hence they still use pounds for
weight and miles for distance over there too... so relax.

 

[Cam Penner]

Well.. it's called the ENGLISH SYSTEM for a reason... as in the imperial
bittish used it when they colonized us. Hence they still use pounds for
weight and miles for distance over there too... so relax.

Last I heard, they buy gas there by the litre, and you buy
stuff in the supermarket by the gram. In fact, I think you
HAVE to buy it by the metric unit, they're not allowed to
sell it buy the pound/oz.

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

Hey buddy, that's 4 pounds, 56 pence per Imperial gallon, thats about 9.00
USD per Imperial gallon

Hey all you americans, why don't you make it easy on yourself and use
measurement systems the WHOLE WORLD uses instead of a stupid out of sync
system you invented, let's see um how about METRIC. We are all tired of
converting so y'all can understand, eh!

The metric system is invented. The English system was developed. I'm not
asking you to convert anything for me. I'm quite comfortable using the
measurement system I grew up with. Sorry if you're annoyed by that. If
it weren't for NATO whining the US would never have made the slightest
move to adopt the metric system. And it was a complete lie that the
metric system was more 'accurate'. Accuracy has more to do with
repeatability, surface finish and tolerances - regardless of measurment
system.

still, a few more generations and you will rest comfortably in your
grave. The metric system will slowly infect us all.

Carl

 

[Svein O]

What's the highest gas prices in your area (converted to $US, please).
South of Buffalo, NY we're looking at $3.93 for 93 oct. premium.

pp

What are you all nagging about?
In Norway we are gratified with prices between NOK 9.90 - 13.42 for 1 liter
95 octan.
Converted for those who live in the US: $6,00- 7,75 for one US gallon.
So....

Svein Olav

 

[Phil]

what are you limey's paying for soap these days, or don't you know???

 

[MN]

The metric system is invented. The English system was developed.

Both were developed, not invented or discovered.

I'm not asking you to convert anything for me. I'm quite comfortable using
the measurement system I grew up with.

The gentleman from Texas is politely telling you to **** off,
as he does not care for your efforts to communicate with him!

Sorry if you're annoyed by that. If it weren't for NATO whining the US
would never have made the slightest move to adopt the metric system.

Yup.



And it was a complete lie that the metric system was more 'accurate'.
Accuracy has more to do with repeatability, surface finish and
tolerances - regardless of measurment system.

True.



still, a few more generations and you will rest comfortably in your grave.
The metric system will slowly infect us all.

It'll not infect you,....you'll just see sense in changing, ...eventually
and for your own good, and others too.

The recent decimalization of the stock market, for example,
helped foreigners buy US stocks more easily and is working
wonders to prevent a slide in values, helping to avoid recession,
and in the future will also be working to help retiring baby-boomers
divest their portfolios and hopefully not collapse the market.

The 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, stock price quoting system was scary
to non-anglo foreigners and cost US. hefty billions in trade.

The world learned English, not because it is one of the
simplest languages in the world, and not because the English
conquered some distant lands, but because it was beneficial
to do so, same will happen with the reluctant Americans and
the simple metric system.


MN

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

Both were developed, not invented or discovered.








The gentleman from Texas is politely telling you to **** off,
as he does not care for your efforts to communicate with him!









It'll not infect you,....you'll just see sense in changing, ...eventually
and for your own good, and others too.

The recent decimalization of the stock market, for example,
helped foreigners buy US stocks more easily and is working
wonders to prevent a slide in values, helping to avoid recession,
and in the future will also be working to help retiring baby-boomers
divest their portfolios and hopefully not collapse the market.

The 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, stock price quoting system was scary
to non-anglo foreigners and cost US. hefty billions in trade.

The world learned English, not because it is one of the
simplest languages in the world, and not because the English
conquered some distant lands, but because it was beneficial
to do so, same will happen with the reluctant Americans and
the simple metric system.


MN

Around 1791 some french dude arbitrarily says "Hey, how about we divide
the distnace from the equator to the north pole by 10 million and go
from there!" the rest of the world said "Merde!" but it was too late.

Invented then developed.

Carl

 

[MN]

Around 1791 some french dude arbitrarily says "Hey, how about we divide
the distnace from the equator to the north pole by 10 million and go from
there!" the rest of the world said "Merde!" but it was too late.

It wasn't that simplistic.

It took years to implement such a modernity.

In Russia, for example, they still used pounds and
miles well into the XX century.

My grandmother who was born in Imperial Russia
in 1900, never quite accepted the fact that metric is
simply more convienient. She also never fully embraced
the idea that banknotes could be printed in multiple
colors, not just green as the US dollar, or red as in
Tsarist Russian rubble.

Invented then developed.

Implemented I think is the most important word.

MN

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

It wasn't that simplistic.

It took years to implement such a modernity.

In Russia, for example, they still used pounds and
miles well into the XX century.

My grandmother who was born in Imperial Russia
in 1900, never quite accepted the fact that metric is
simply more convienient. She also never fully embraced
the idea that banknotes could be printed in multiple
colors, not just green as the US dollar, or red as in
Tsarist Russian rubble.






Implemented I think is the most important word.

MN

The OP claimed our system was invented by 'us'. Clearly, the metric
system has a firmer claim on being 'invented' than the English system.

how much better, than choosing a brand new, arbitrary standard, wouldn't
it have been to use the yard as a starting point? Or choose something
closer to a 'foot' in size. The foot is so convenient as an intermediate
unit. The decimeter is too small. Plus the names have too many
syllables. its unwieldy for common use.

you can have the last word.

Carl

 

[MN]

The OP claimed our system was invented by 'us'. Clearly, the metric system
has a firmer claim on being 'invented' than the English system.

how much better, than choosing a brand new, arbitrary standard, wouldn't
it have been to use the yard as a starting point? Or choose something
closer to a 'foot' in size. The foot is so convenient as an intermediate
unit. The decimeter is too small. Plus the names have too many syllables.
its unwieldy for common use.

you can have the last word.

Except for the names which I don't find that problematic
you've done a good job pointing out the shortcomings
of the new and the benefits of the old.

I think the original poster would agree with you in, all
he was after was probably a desire for more for uniformity.

MN