Antti, Gasoline prices in the middle of the USA are $3.15 per gallon right now. Premium octain and diesel are higher. I know this is cheap by comparison to your prices, but we are complaining as prices were $2.00 to $2.50 a short time ago.
Automobiles and cheap gasoline over the past 100 years have fostered a very low density development pattern. Home densities do not support economical public transit, so everyone drives a car. The demand for gasoline is very in-elastic. We buy gas whatever the price because we must have it to drive to work. The only changes come when we buy new vehicles that are more efficient. Studded snow tires are excellent when the road is covered with snow and ice. They were banned here over 30 years ago. We were living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the time (population 1,000,000+) and the 6 lane super highways began to have tire ruts down the lanes, not in the snow - in the concrete! Regards, Bob S. On Jan 17, 2008 3:22 AM, Antti-Pekka Virjonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope they are enjoying the high gas prices. > > > > Regards, Bob S. > > This makes me wonder, how much does gas or diesel fuel cost in the US > (or other parts of the world) these days? > > Today the price for diesel fuel is around 1.20 euros per litre here in > Finland. That translates to roughly 6.72 USD per gallon. 95 octane gas > is about 1.40 euros per litre. And then we pay additional tax for diesel > engine vehicles. I have Landrover Disco II Td5 which uses over 10 litres > of diesel for 100km drive... > > Regarding the tyres, here about 80% of the cars use studded winter tyres > (instead of only friction based M+S). It's a huge difference in > performance (studs vs. friction) when the roads are flat planes of ice > ;-). > > BTW to get back to the topic: Yet another example how companies alienate > themselves from their customers. I would have thought the calendar (or > any other such publication by a loyal customer group) would have been > thought as free (and positive) marketing to the manufacturer. They > should have volunteered to pay part or all of the publication costs > instead of whine about copyrights or such. > > Antti-Pekka > ________________________________________ > > Antti-Pekka Virjonen > > Computec Oy > R&D Turku > > www.computec.fi > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
