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Re: Mutual admiration

To: "triumphs@autox.team.net" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Mutual admiration
From: Doug Hamilton <douglasehamilton@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 21:29:24 -0600
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>Have you managed to find cheap 4-Star, or expensive LRP?   For LRP I'm 
>paying around 77p a litre.   Multiply by 4.55 and by 1.45, and that is 
>"only" USD5.08 per gallon.   Leaded 4-Star, on the other hand, is 99.9p 
>a litre - USD6.59 per gallon.
>
>Personally, I reckon that petrol prices should be fixed for the life of 
>the car at the prevailing rate on the day it was first registered. That 
>would be about 53p a gallon for the Spit, and, what, four-and-six for 
>the Herald?
>
>ATB
>- -- 
>Mike
>1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
>1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FM105671
>
Mike,
your math is a little out for the US readers as the US gallon is 3.91 
liters an Imperial gallon is 4.55 liters.
So your numbers for US comparison should be US$4.36/USgal for LRP and 
US$5.66/USgal for 4star. Still scary numbers all the same, I used to be 
amazed when I worked for the British Army here in Canada you would read 
the ads in UK papers and all the prices would be the same as in Canadian 
ads just with the pound symbol in front instead of a dollar sign.

Doug Hamilton
1960 Triumph TR3A
1963 Fiat Cabriolet

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