It cracks us up in this country when we hear Americans moaning about petrol prices.Granted, your gas prices have risen a lot recently but it doesn't match our ever rising prices.
We pay in litres. £0.95 per litre.
One gallon = 3.78 litres.
Then 3.78 x 0.95 = £3.60 a gallon
That converts to $6.56 a gallon.
$6.56
The first post of this blog in June was a rant about price comparisons and I had worked petrol out to be $5.89... That's only 3 months ago.
With talk of it rising to £1 a litre ($6.88 a gallon) there is a protest scheduled for today.
We had a protest 5 years ago and the country came to a standstill because tankers couldn't get to petrol stations. The chaos that ensued was amazing to see. We didn't realise we were that close to the edge of meltdown if petrol didn't get through.
Well now they are doing it again, people are filling up and running the stations dry. There are several petrol stations that are closed already and the rest have long, long queues outside.
Britain may be brought to it's knees again. Phone calls between friends saying '..hey the petrol station in South Street has petrol...quick get some' will be flying around. Panic everywhere.
I'd better get my bike ready.
If you'd like to hear some quaint English and Aussie accents talking about a weird sport that has phrases as uncommon to Americans as baseball is to us, then check out the 5 minute Ashes highlights from the BBC.
* Ooo.. It plays all fast like The Chipmunks. I'll leave it like that, it sounds better. To hear the real one go here
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