My local station here in GA (his name really is Bubba) has a note on the register stating that when we buy Phillips, we're buying American gas ONLY. Not a protectionist, but I would prefer to give Americans $, all other factors being equal...
If that's the phillips oil company I know (Conoco / Phillips) , then he knows something the Phillips company doesn't know. They have sites all over the world and nowhere in their public record do they make such a claim.
.....................It's a cheap marketing trick.
Speaking of gas, the price was around $1.46 3 weeks or so ago, and today I saw it for $1.73 for reg, and 1.93 for the Suburbans and Durangos.
If a Beetle gets 30 mpg on regular gas and a Suburban gets 13 mpg on premium driving 15000 miles a year, you would save $1370 per year by driving the the Beetle. at todays prices.
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Quit complaining about prices! In the UK we pay the equivalent of nearly $5 a gallon! (I just worked this out).
Graham
True - but a "cross-country" trip sure uses alot less gas.
Jere
in article bvqfhv$2jdv$ snipped-for-privacy@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk, Graham Dinsdale at snipped-for-privacy@hehe.com wrote on 2/4/04 1:55 AM:
The English Imperial galoon is 1/5th more than ours.
-Rich
1 gallon [UK] = 1.2009499 gallon [US, liquid] 1 gallon [US, liquid] = 0.8326742 gallon [UK]
1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.7854118 liter What is the going rate per liter in the UK?
I used the litre to US gallon conversion of: 1 gallon(US) = 3.785litres. The going rate is about 70 pence a litre (i.e. £0.7) If you run the numbers as follows:
70 pence times 3.785 = cost per US gallon in UK pounds = £2.64Then use a currency conversion site such as
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