I suspect that the adjacent icon changes as price changes. Some of us find it difficult to believe that $1.23 is actually cheap.Let me trace some of my petrol memories.
- When we came to Australia in 1967 I think petrol was 36cents a gallon (about 4.5 litres)
- When service stations started putting up signs so that you could see the price before you drove in the late 70s early 80s, then petrol was 9c a litre.
- I well remember the horror I felt when (in about 1987) it cost me more than $20 to fill the tank of my Datsun Sunny.
- I have in the last few weeks put over $80 worth of petrol in my fairly ordinary Ford sedan (tank about 65 L)
- I have yet to understand how relatively modest increases in the barrel prices for oil are reflected by significantly greater increases at the pump {in the last year the pump seems to have gone up 25%---say from $1 to $1.25--- but the barrel has gone up by about 16% ---say from $57 to $67---} I would have thought the two should have been exact parallels
- I am seriously thinking about buying a scooter!
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There are scooter shops springing up all over the place. Great idea. They are electric aren't they?
Most scooters are petrol, but the small ones use so little fuel that they are a huige saving. Also they are ideal for "poping here" and "popping there"...as long as you don't get knocked off!!
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