...@kayels has a guest post on her (very quiet (but who am I to criticise)) blog by @SRT40 (or @SRT40_USA as he was for this trip).
Worth reading for a snapshot into one man's crazy seven days in SoCal.
California Dreamin
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Friday, 14 November 2008
One of the...
...many lovely new blogs I discovered due to that nifty Black Boxes widget is Windmill Watching. At least I think I found it via the widget...it might have been via cJane instead.
Anyhoo.
Yesterday she posted up some pictures illustrating the high high prices of petrol in the USA.
As a Brit I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Then I did some Googling and some Maths.
With the help of PetrolPrices.com, the X-rates currency calculator and Google itself, I discovered the conversion rates.
Prices are UK averages from 12/11/08 (that's the 12th of November or 11/12/08 for the Americans)
Type / Pence per litre / Pounds per gallon / Dollar conversion
Unleaded = 95.4p / £4.34 / $6.42
Diesel = 109.1p / £4.96 / $7.34
LRP = 102.9p / £4.69 / $6.93
Super Unleaded = 102.5p / £4.66 / $6.90
While I do feel sorry for the Americans who have never had to deal with such high fuel prices before...this goes a little way to explain just why any British friends laugh hysterically when you complain about high fuel costs.
Anyhoo.
Yesterday she posted up some pictures illustrating the high high prices of petrol in the USA.
As a Brit I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Then I did some Googling and some Maths.
With the help of PetrolPrices.com, the X-rates currency calculator and Google itself, I discovered the conversion rates.
Prices are UK averages from 12/11/08 (that's the 12th of November or 11/12/08 for the Americans)
Type / Pence per litre / Pounds per gallon / Dollar conversion
Unleaded = 95.4p / £4.34 / $6.42
Diesel = 109.1p / £4.96 / $7.34
LRP = 102.9p / £4.69 / $6.93
Super Unleaded = 102.5p / £4.66 / $6.90
While I do feel sorry for the Americans who have never had to deal with such high fuel prices before...this goes a little way to explain just why any British friends laugh hysterically when you complain about high fuel costs.
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