>>
 >>       Oh, you can afford petrol these days?  At a buck a litre, I'm not
 > sure
 >> if I can.  :(
 >
 > Not quite got that far here yet.  Close though.  It has hit 89 cent a
 > litre at times, and I have seen the odd place at .91


      It's 95.9 per litre here this morning.  I heard from the girlfriend that
it's close to $1.20 in downtown Vancouver.

 > Right now they cant make up their minds what the price should be.
 > What irritates me most about this, is that the price goes up
 > immediately when oil prices go up, even though the stuff in the system
 > was purchased at the lower price, but it never goes down immediately.

      During the Iranian oil 'crisis', with oil at $40/barrel our petrol
peaked at .65/l, it's around that now, and we're paying over a third more.

      We're being ripped off bigtime!  And people thought Fido politics were
bad.  :(





                       .....Bob

--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50