Garth ................ but what's your mileage per gallon ?
Yesterday I changed over from winter to sumers tires and expect to get an
extra 7 to 10 miles a gallon on the summer rubber.
I can't complain at close to 45mpg in the city and ~60 on the highway.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:28 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT $4 a gallon gas
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> I suggest that you save your sympathy, Wiliam. Larry runs a Rolls
>> Royce and an old and no doubt inefficient one at that. He knows full
>> well that he need only change his machine for something more frugal to
>> save his worry about the "exorbitant" price of fuel.
>
>
> Yeah, I'd love to be able to buy $4.00 U.S./U.S. gallon of gas. My
> latest fill at my local Mohawk station was $1.39 CDN/litre, which worked
> out to about $5.16 USD per U.S. gallon at today's exchange rates. And I
> live in Calgary, the supposed centre of the universe when it comes to
> petroleum.
>
> The only reason that wasn't a LOT higher is because Canada's dollar's
> gained so much compared to the U.S. buck, and petroleum prices are
> denoted in U.S. dollars on the world market. If the exchange rate
> stayed where it was in (say) November of 2002, our prices would be
> somewhere north of $7.50 USD per U.S. gallon.
>
> I fear the worsening of the exchange rate. 8^>
>
> That being said, my wife uses public transit to go to her work, and I
> work from home. The Passat only gets used for grocery runs and to visit
> friends/family or to go on jaunts to the mountains. There's more than
> one way that "lifestyle" can be used to counteract the worst effects of
> high fuel prices. The bicycles are all tuned up and ready to roll
> (assuming we ever truly get spring and summer round these parts...).
>
>
> Garth
>
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