Re: The price of oil
Merlyne <[email protected]>
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BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > On 18.09.2022 16.26, Merlyne wrote: >> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: >> >>> I selfishly wish "they" would stop messing about with the economy >>> and make the oil-prices go back down to a reasonable level. >>> >>> Currently here lowest price is DKK13,68 (or EUR1,84 (or GBP1,61 (or >>> CAD2,44 (or USD1,84)))) per litre, and I'm not paying that. >>> >>> So I burn a good amount of wood at the moment. >>> >>> BeH >>> >> >> I assume you mean at the pump. > > Oh no. I don't have a car (or other combustion engine device). I have > my trusty bikes (and the rare delivery company) for all my transport > needs. > > It heating oil. For not being cold and avoiding cold showers and such. I think most houses here are heated with natural gas. Except for old houses that never got upgraded and houses built in the late 1970s which have baseboard heating because electricity was cheaper then. > >> It's around $1.40/L here and $4.00/gal in Upper NY state =$1.00/L. >> >> I'll assume that your cars don't run on burning wood because that >> wood be weird, although not as weird as the Mario thing... > > Not that weird. Back in the day (ww2) that's how it was done when the > petrol rations ran out: > https://filweb.azurewebsites.net/filer/visning/ccf20a952b8b45b8ba156c0 4 > 7bc6ba1b > >> Observation: you write numbers the same way the Fr*nch do > > Correctly, you mean...? > Is it correct to mess up csv files with backwards decimal notations? It's at times like this, I miss Phil.