by "Eddie Haskell" <kimn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM
"traveler" <Vallecito@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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May 8, 3:49 am, Midwinter <midwinte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Pope Wears Prada <The_Pope@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
> > Expect $5 a gallon gas by year's end and $6 a gallon by the end of
2009.
>
> Oh, you poor darlings (again). Try running a car in the UK for a few
> months.
>
> We're on £1.10 per *litre* already and still climbing. I make that about
> $8.16 a US gallon. So I guess ours was a space rocket.
> Are you the least bit aware of the vast distances in the American
> West? Do they teach that in Geography over there or do you think we
> all hopscotch on down to the corner pub or maybe motor a few miles out
> into the country and that's that? When an American westerner is
> paying $3.69 a gallon for gasoline, it is about the same as you paying
> twice as much as you are now.
<snicker>
-Eddie Haskell
