$1.30 cdn. per litre for 87 octane here in NB, Canada, today. I'm not sure
what it is today in Calais, ME, USA, which is where I normally buy most of
my gas. It usually runs about 20 to 25 cents a litre cheaper there than
here.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: [OM] [OT] Re: Getting gassed - a rant.
> At 12:31 PM 01/09/2005, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>
>
>
> >Here in Southern Maryland, 35 miles from the nation's capitol, the
> >part-time residence of the oil president, regular gas hit $3.48 a
> >gallon this morning.
> >
> >Do I sound upset?
> >
> >You betcha!
>
>
> It's all about perspective.
>
> I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Alberta provides the United
> States with approx. 11% of its daily petro-energy needs, and you'd
> think that, because we pull the stuff out of the ground here and
> refine it here, we could get reasonably cheap gas.
>
> Uh-uh.
>
> Your price for regular gas *after* Katrina sounds about the same as
> our price for regular gas *before* Katrina. In some places in
> Canada, regular gas prices have already topped $1.30 CDN/litre, which
> is $4.15 USD/US Gal. using today's spot exchange rate. Europeans are
> used to routinely paying even more than that on an equivalent basis
> -- I can't imagine what Katrina may do to shock *their* fuel prices...
>
> And I drive a Volkswagen Passat V6. Premium fuel only. **SIGH**
>
> Count your blessings. Count 'em even more that you're not in Hawaii
> -- there, they've put price ceilings on gasoline. Can you say
> "stupid, economically-illiterate move leading to impending fuel
shortages"?
>
>
> Garth
>
>
>
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