From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 3 8:48:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A23A37B615 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:48:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00229; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:48:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 09:56:08 -0700 From: Wes Peters Reply-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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. 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. Third, our gas prices here are held down by all sorts of weird government intervention, bizarre market shenanigans, and a public that doesn't understand that the price of gasoline has risen only 4x in the same period that the price of cars has risen 10x. That's certainly NOT a "natural occurence". Fourth, I'm paying $1.48/gal right now, and I want the price to go DOWN, not UP. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message