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Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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That's about $3.62 US/gallon for us in the states. Ouch.
When I honeymooned with my wife in Ireland in 2010, I told her how bad the gas prices were. When we had to fill up the rental for the first time, she saw it was about €1.40 and went "oh, that's not so bad." So I had to explain it was 1.40 euros per liter. That's €5.30/gallon. And with the exchange rate (at the time) that meant we were around $6.85 US per gallon.
It was close to 6 USD per gallon in Italy last March. The price looked much better per liter for sure.
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Hope you had Scotchgard on your clothes.
Another factor with this conversation is that IIRC most (all?) of the gasoline in the USA is sold by volume strictly as opposed to volume corrected. The Consumer's Council of Canada has a decent page explaining this: https://www.consumerscouncil.com/index.cfm?id=13906#temperature
So up here we actually get what we pay for, regardless of the time of year. In the USA, my understanding is "not so much."
Yeah it's pretty ridiculous. It also means during the summer, you're better off buying gas at night when it's cooler.
Just read a Consumer Reports bit on that, said it doesn't make much of a difference since the tanks are underground and insulated. Whatever temperature the gas comes in at, it mostly stays, and turnover is generally high enough that in-ground temperature doesn't get a chance to change. Gas in the lines heat up, but it's only a couple gallons so doesn't have a huge effect if you're filling up from mostly empty.
In the US, most gas station fuel tanks sit 15-20 feet below the surface, and have a fairly constant temperature no matter what the prevailing weather conditions.
edit: (you know, as difter says above, but I didn't read before I made my post.
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I'm paying roughly $7/gallon right now, and practically all parties have agreed with the Green that taxes on it need to go up severely because the low gas prices are causing us to drive too much and thus contribute to global warming. And they're right, up to a point - if gas is $1.000/gallon we'll definitely drive quite a bit less.
But others have made the point before already so I won't exagerate how much I sit here weeping when I hear tell of these high, high prices lower than anything I've literally ever seen here in my entire life.
But others have made the point before already so I won't exagerate how much I sit here weeping when I hear tell of these high, high prices lower than anything I've literally ever seen here in my entire life.
One loonie for a whole gallon! That's insanely cheap.
$1.67/L in Vancouver currently
Actually apparently its higher now, $1.71/L.
Luckily I take the Skytrain everywhere so don't suffer from it too much myself. Well, beyond the trains being busier because less are driving.
I play backgammon with ads on my phone b/c I am too cheap to buy one w/o. It's a small inconvenience that I don't mind dealing with. Here's the Whine: I was eating lunch in the break room and playing backgammon and I didn't realize that my sound was at maximum. An ad came on for Cleopatra's Gold Slots or something, but the voice was a female sounding like she was in full orgasm while she said, "Get Cleopatra's Gold, just play her slots." or something like that. All talk in the room stopped, and everyone was looking at me. All I said was, "damn ads." Now everyone thinks I was looking at porn in a crowded break room. Gah.
The rest of use combined would be a horrifying sight!
That would likely qualify as a Cronenberg Monster.
Hurray for backgammon!
I'd say it's about 50/50 for middle aged to mid 20's to be honest.
The one in Amsterdam? I had the chance to tour it, but the rest of my group wanted to do the Museum of Torture, instead.
And people call me the weirdo.
--Patrick
The one in New York most likely.
I’ve been in increasingly worse pain for a week/week and a half and I haven’t been able to figure out why. I’ve worried that maybe my twice annual procedures aren’t working as well or that maybe I injured myself or that my disease was progressing. My pain was so intense last night that the pain was waking me up every 90 minutes to two hours and I was having vivid dreams of being in pain. This was on medication (my breakthrough stuff) too. It was crazy!
I finally clued in today and realized that my doctor didn’t renew my patch. I took it off to shower and didn’t have a new one and must have kept looking for it/kept assuming I had one somewhere/etc. I asked him at my last appointment to write a new prescription and he said I was fine on that one and wrote a few others.
I called the pharmacy today and confirmed that i was way overdue and called his office and they wanted to help, but I wasn’t sure that they got the urgency, so I did a real life « camp » until I got my meds.
I finally clued in today and realized that my doctor didn’t renew my patch. I took it off to shower and didn’t have a new one and must have kept looking for it/kept assuming I had one somewhere/etc. I asked him at my last appointment to write a new prescription and he said I was fine on that one and wrote a few others.
I called the pharmacy today and confirmed that i was way overdue and called his office and they wanted to help, but I wasn’t sure that they got the urgency, so I did a real life « camp » until I got my meds.
Shawarma is very different from falafel.
$&@?%# asses at the takeout place.
I realize this whine is in a whole other league than my last, but I was looking forward to that damned falafel all day and to get a mouthful of chicken that I had to spit out...not cool.
$&@?%# asses at the takeout place.
I realize this whine is in a whole other league than my last, but I was looking forward to that damned falafel all day and to get a mouthful of chicken that I had to spit out...not cool.