[TR] Refuelling a Spitfire

[Patrick Baize]

Australia (my wifes cousins ) is at 10.00 per gallon   first time in my 
life I paid 105.34  for gas 3.999 a gallon


On 3/10/2022 9:06 PM, Don Hiscock wrote:
> A TR friend in the Netherlands reported the equivalent of $9.73/US 
> gallon there this afternoon.
>
> On Thursday, March 10, 2022, bill beecher <notakitcar at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:notakitcar at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just topped up yesterday at $3.76gal USD in Texas.
>
>     “Last night I saw upon the stair,
>     A little man who wasn't there,
>     He wasn't there again today
>     Oh, how I wish he'd go away”.... Mearns
>
>     On Mar 10, 2022, at 12:58 PM, Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com
>     <mailto:don.hiscock at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     
>     I bought fuel twice yesterday travelling between states and paid
>     £0.80/L ($3.999/US gal) in Ohio. And breathed a sigh of relief
>     that I did a driving trip from Missouri to California and back --
>     4700 miles -- in January! California is headed the UK's way on
>     pricing faster than the US midwest.
>
>     Don
>
>     On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:47 PM John Macartney
>     <johnbmacartney at gmx.com <mailto:johnbmacartney at gmx.com>> wrote:
>
>         I’ve been using a friends Spitfire for the last ten days and
>         today decided to top off the tank, even though it was still
>         half full. Toured around the local gas stations to find out
>         where the cheapest fuel might be available. To compare like
>         with like and remembering one US gallon is effectively 3.8
>         litres (gas is only sold by the litre in the U.K.) the
>         cheapest was one US gallon cost USD 8.77. Just after lunch I
>         passed the same gas station where the price I paid this
>         morning had risen from 8.77 to 9..12. Diesel was even more!
>         Thankfully, a pint of my favourite beer hasn’t changed - yet.
>
>         Jonmac
>
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