Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Strange incident at Immigration Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:19:05 +0900 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3FD3DF99.3030509@hotmail.com> References: <3FCACE88.4080601@hotmail.com> <3FCD8D71.2040109@hotmail.com> <3FCEA3E4.6040906@hotmail.com> <867k1dhs7a.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org> <86brqogc3e.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org> <1g5i3o3.c23vbi1173b7kN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.jp (61.195.247.171) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070849760 72453341 61.195.247.171 ([139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8839 Fabian wrote: > Raj Feridun hu kiteb: > >>I think the whole driving experience in Japan is overpriced period. >>Shaken is a total ripoff and the costs for driving schools and >>gasoline are insane. (Yes, I understand why gasoline costs are high.) > > Gasoline is expensive in Japan? Not compared to the UK it isn't. I drive a lot (about 50K+kms a year) in largish vehicles that while not exactly gas guzzlers still use a fair bit of fuel. Petrol prices seem fine to me, in fact I wouldn't object to paying around 140-180 yen per litre if it would ease the congestion a bit. -- "Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing. The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; the problem was not only to conquer but to conquer again and again, perpetually; our forces would be drained off in the attempt." - Emperor Hadrian AD 117-138