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(...) I'm amazed by how much the price of gasoline in the U.S. has fallen in the past two decades. As far as I can remember, it's remained roughly steady at around ~US$.95 to ~US$1.40 per gallon since at least 1985, which was about when I started (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) I actually find this conversation somewhat humorous in that we in the US can complain about our gas prices. Anywhere else in the world we would be paying the equivalent of $5 per gallon or more!!! It is funny (Thats funny-wierd not funny-haha) (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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Uh, Todd? Where ARE you getting your figures? Premium (and damn near 87 for a while!) is $1.85 down the street from me at the CHEAPEST gas station in my area. In SF, it tops $2/gal. If that $1.40/gal means 87 octane, you're getting closer, but not (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) Anywhere, everywhere -- prices are different depending on where you are, but on the whole, the prices of gas have gone up less than everything else has -- just like LEGO. So the prices of gas and LEGO have actually gone *down* considerably in (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) A lot of the price difference depends on the taxes built into gasoline. We pay a bunch of taxes on our gas. I think a rough figure is 30% of the price of gas is actually taxes. Steve (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Todd Lehman writes: <snipped> (...) It's what the market will bear, and what the cartel enforces. You'd think that it would be cheaper closer to the pipe. So given the fact that it seems to be cheaper away from California it (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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30%, I thought it was 50%! Scott S. eve (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's 50% taxe here in Quebec. :-( about 0.45US$ a litter Martin (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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Martin Legault <mlegault@nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message news:FH2ss3.671@lugnet.com... (...) That metric thing can really get you if you don't remember it. Walking past a gas station in Germany a couple of years ago I checked out the prices and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:59:28 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) When I was living in New Jersey, up to 1986-87, it had the cheapest prices in the country, hovering around the 80 cent mark. I believe that was due to lowest (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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