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Filed under: Open Thread — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on May 21, 2007 @ 11:47 am CEST
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1 Alan
May 21, 2007 @ 1:56 pm CESTGas prices are now at an all-time high in the US: $3.18 per gallon. The Chicago area has the highest, with $3.59 per gallon.
One wonders if this will have any lasting effects.
2 Alan
May 21, 2007 @ 2:32 pm CESTTest
3 Interested
May 21, 2007 @ 3:39 pm CESTYou have passed the test of the Emergency Blog System. Had this been an actual test It would have been replied with meaningless trolls.
4 mvdg
May 21, 2007 @ 3:43 pm CESTWow man 3.18 per gallon? That’s incredible! That’s, like, what, twice as cheap as in the Netherlands!
Horrible!
5 Interested
May 21, 2007 @ 3:45 pm CESTlol and you drive about what 1/8th?
6 mvdg
May 21, 2007 @ 3:52 pm CESTMy bike takes 1 liter per 10 kilometers. So that’s 1/10
7 Interested
May 21, 2007 @ 4:00 pm CESTlmao
How much do you drive in a year?
8 mvdg
May 21, 2007 @ 4:02 pm CEST3650 kilometers? 10 KM a day, something like that i think
9 mvdg
May 21, 2007 @ 4:03 pm CESTSo that’s 365 liter per year ‘fuel’ (aka water). That’s 2 euros per bottle. That’s almost 830 a year. In Euros. In dollars 1,000.
Yep, I sure the price of water won’t rise.
10 Interested
May 21, 2007 @ 4:07 pm CESTI was close.
I drive - converted - to about 24,140 kilometers a year.
11 Alan
May 21, 2007 @ 5:12 pm CESTYeah, but gas prices don’t affect the Dutch very much. They just bicycle everywhere, their country is so small.
I do wonder what they’ll do if the dikes break. I have a hard time imagining people fleeing a flood on their bicycles.
As for my own driving: about 9000km per year. About half the American average.
12 mvdg
May 21, 2007 @ 6:25 pm CESTInterested: yeah, that’s quite normal I guess. I know that my parents drive something like that as well per year.
13 Interested
May 21, 2007 @ 6:56 pm CESTI’ve had some years I have driven 57936 kilometers a year - that’s when you live in more Rural areas. And other years I drove 4,828 kilometers a year.