On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:05:14 +0900, "Fabian" <lajzar@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Declan Murphy hu kiteb:
>
>>> 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.
>
>Petrol prices in Britain top that. Current guesstimate is 225 yen a
>litre, based on
>
>186 yen/gbp (www,currencyconverter.co.uk)
>5.50 gbp a gallon ( http://www.evuk.co.uk/hotwires/jim/art2.html )
>
>Tell me, would you object to paying that much?

Back home in good old New Jersey the last I checked it was about
$1.47/gallon of regular which is 41.8 yen/liter. I did notice that the
octanes of gasoline in the UK (and Japan) are WAY higher than what
passes for gas in the USA. 

Raj