"Lloyd Gilbert" <afda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
That's just about twice what we're paying here in California. Gas tends
to
be cheaper in countries willing to exploit the poor and kill them if
necessary to keep the oil flowing. Oddly enough, it was cheaper by half
before the killing began. That's progress for you, the people get poorer
and the gas gets dearer.
-- Dave
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