Re: OT: The big oil companies - shame on you!

If I was getting paid in U.S. dollars that might relate. But I get paid in
Canadian dollars. Canadian wages are close to equivalent to U.S. at par
numeric value - significantly less than U.S. wages when converted to U.S.
dollars. So to your average Canadian, our gas price in terms of earning
power is in fact around $5/gallon as I stated.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The big oil companies - shame on you!


> Timothy writes:
>
> > By the way - yesterday I paid $1.336/litre. Or the equivalent of
> > $5.057/gallon. Any of you in the US paying that much? If not, quit your
> > snivelling.
>
> While that's high, it's not as bad as it initially seems. $5.057 CAD
converts
> to $4.253 US. There are places in the US where the price of gas has
reached
> those levels, although clearly not many.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>

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