Subject:
|
Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:51:45 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1940 times
|
| |
|
|
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 04:27:35 GMT, "Tom McDonald"
<radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
> BTW, everyone tries to rip off Californians, including other Californians.
> Need anyone mention the evil oil companies? Okay, I will. The price of gas in
> the states is averages somewhere $1.15 - $1.25 a gallon but here in the SF Bay
> Area is around $1.80 per gallon of 89 octane, cheap by European standards
> though.
It's nothing to do with ripping people off, it's the overall local prices.
IIRC The Bay Area has the *highest* cost of living in the entire 48
contiguous states.
Right now, gas prices are sucking in MI--they're hanging around $1.25/gal
for 87 octane (that's 'bout 0.33USD/liter for the cheap stuff, if anyone
cares).
Steve
|
|
Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
| Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:37c15dc5.581857...net.com... (...) It also has to do with the type of gasoline you use. California passed a law a few years back that requires a special kind of 'environmentally' friendly (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
| On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:51:45 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) <rant at no one in particular> Oh how criminal. The shame of it. Oh how you yanks are ripped-off in so many ways. Stop your pathetic whining over what are (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
| Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <37c15dc5.5818575@lu...et.com>... (...) Boy, are you being robbed, we only have to pay ca: 1.05 USD/liter ;-( (And how much does a new Volvo cost for you?) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
| (...) stuff (...) KB (...) after (...) I live in the same area as Tom S, and he's right. We don't get good deals here. It's not whining, just a fact. My first half-off Lego set discount I picked up about 400 miles from my home. I didn't go out of my (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
|
276 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
