On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:53:23 -0700, Tian <tnharter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Jan van den Broek wrote:
>> Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:30:03 +0100
>> afda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Lloyd Gilbert) schrieb:
>>
>>>On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:29:47 -0700, Tian <tnharter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>For some reason this causes rioting. The whole story made no sense.
>>>
>>>Well, the actual number aside (42 - yay!), if the price of gasoline
>>>was previously in the 10-15 cents range (I'm guessing totally), then
>>>that sort of percentage increase would be very unpleasant.
>>
>Yabut here I saw a pump with $3.37 or something like it just last night.
>I remember 42 cents a gallon, but not recently. I'm sure I know adults
>that don't remember it.
Costs us in the UK approaching 2 dollars a litre. Which, I think,
works out at over 8 dollars a gallon.
Iran's an oil producing country, and as such oil is very, very cheap
there. Thus refined oil products are also cheap.
Lloyd
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