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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 $1.40/gal means 87 octane, you're getting closer, but not (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Anywhere, everywhere -- prices are different depending on where you are, but on the whole, the prices of gas have gone up less than everything else has -- just like LEGO. So the prices of gas and LEGO have actually gone *down* considerably in (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) A lot of the price difference depends on the taxes built into gasoline. We pay a bunch of taxes on our gas. I think a rough figure is 30% of the price of gas is actually taxes. Steve (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep) —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | 30%, I thought it was 50%! Scott S. eve (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep) —Martin Legault
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| | | | | | (...) It's 50% taxe here in Quebec. :-( about 0.45US$ 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) —Jesse Long
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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) —Tom McDonald
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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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