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gas around the world
« on: August 09, 2008, 05:47:46 AM »
Does every country use the stupid nine tenths at the end of their prices or is it a North American thing.  Like $3.999 a gallon or liter 
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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2008, 05:50:08 AM »
It's the same here. It has to do with tax limits.

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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2008, 05:51:35 AM »
Though the gas here costs more than $2/liter or $8/gallon...

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2008, 05:52:44 AM »
Just went under $4 a gallon here
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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2008, 05:54:24 AM »
You live in brave America and not in cowardly Europe. You have cheap gas, the 2nd Amendment, the freedom of speech...

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2008, 06:03:16 AM »
You live in brave America and not in cowardly Europe. You have cheap gas, the 2nd Amendment, the freedom of speech...
I think You mean 1st Amendment not 2nd Amendment for that one is the right to keep and bear arms.
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2008, 06:07:38 AM »
You live in brave America and not in cowardly Europe. You have cheap gas, the 2nd Amendment, the freedom of speech...
I think You mean 1st Amendment not 2nd Amendment for that one is the right to keep and bear arms.

I know. I meant 2nd Amendment and freedom of speech (1st Amendment). Both of them are great. ;)

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2008, 06:17:02 AM »
We just have .9 to represent 9/10's of a cent to display petrol prices in Australia.

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2008, 06:20:28 AM »
You live in brave America and not in cowardly Europe. You have cheap gas, the 2nd Amendment, the freedom of speech...
I think You mean 1st Amendment not 2nd Amendment for that one is the right to keep and bear arms.

I know. I meant 2nd Amendment and freedom of speech (1st Amendment). Both of them are great. ;)
Okay a AS thing. ;D
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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2008, 11:43:03 PM »
Bah everyone from around the world keeps thinking our gas is cheap but they don't realize it's not cheap for us but I understand it's cheap for them.

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2008, 05:22:14 AM »
Bah everyone from around the world keeps thinking our gas is cheap but they don't realize it's not cheap for us but I understand it's cheap for them.

All us foreigners are just so rich compared to Americans...  Either that, or the immense urban sprawl and pathetic public transport system in the US swallow up the price difference by requiring Americans to drive four times as far as Europeans.  You should check out 'The End of Suburbia' for a look at the problems inherent in post-war urban design in the US, and why the American suburbs can't survive in the long term as a viable way of life:

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2008, 06:16:09 AM »
Does every country use the stupid nine tenths at the end of their prices or is it a North American thing.  Like $3.999 a gallon or liter 

Yeah babhy.

It's always something and then "9"

at the moment, it's $2.02(9) pl

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Re: gas around the world
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2008, 07:46:59 AM »
Bah everyone from around the world keeps thinking our gas is cheap but they don't realize it's not cheap for us but I understand it's cheap for them.

All us foreigners are just so rich compared to Americans...  Either that, or the immense urban sprawl and pathetic public transport system in the US swallow up the price difference by requiring Americans to drive four times as far as Europeans.  You should check out 'The End of Suburbia' for a look at the problems inherent in post-war urban design in the US, and why the American suburbs can't survive in the long term as a viable way of life:


The guy they keep interviewing gave a shall we say, heated speech at TED a while back.

He drops the F-bomb every couple minutes.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html
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