Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:39:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <20000304103901.A24172@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au>
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On Saturday, 4 March 2000 at 10:12:13 +1030, Mark Newton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:56:08AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > >> "Koster, K.J." wrote: >> >>> Oh, those Americans. :-) >>> Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands, >>> times 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands. >>> Everyone in the Netherlands drives cars; everyone thinks gas is expensive. >>> This means that the gas prices in the US can go up 440% and people will >>> still drive cars and buy gas (and complain about gas prices, of course). >> >> First, this off-topic for -hackers, so I've directed replies to -chat >> if you want to continue. > > Sage advice :-) > >> Second, I know people that commute distances that would cross your >> country. I suspect the average American uses a lot more gas than the >> average Nederlander. > > Bah. In Western Australia there's a sheep station called "Little Texas" > which just happens to have a land area larger than the state of Texas; > I live in Adelaide, so I have to go 600 km East or 3000 km West or 3000 km > North to find another population centre with more than 50,000 people; > the nearest interstate Capital city is 980 km away. Melbourne's 750 km. > Our cities are also a hell of a lot more widely laid-out than yours: > Adelaide, with a pop. of 1.1 million, has the same surface area as > New York City. I think you should take a look at Salt Lake City (where Wes lives) before making that sort of claim. SLC is a lot wider than Adelaide. > So let's accept that distances in the US are pissant little commuter > hops, shall we? :-) Depends on the part of the USA. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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