Re: Hurricane Katrina


"Bootlaces" <bootlaces@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> Today, though I didn't buy gas, I noted it was $3.029 per gallon
> >
> > There are problems with the pumps in some places with the rise over
$3 --
> > the tallies on the pumps don't work !!!
>
> Similar problems occured at least once (possibly twice) in the UK. And
> would have occured again without the shift away from gallons to litres.
>

Timing could be better tho :~)

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