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Originally Posted by kazbates
Some of our hard-earned (okay, my husband's  ) tax dollars goes to help subsidize the oil industry  , or at least it used to, to help keep the cost of gasoline lower. I know it is much higher over seas, but you tend to gripe about what you know and I know gas prices shot up here supposedly because of Hurricane Katrina and then continued to increase for no real rhyme or reason.  |
You don't want to know the prices we had to pay back then....
I was lucky, because in that month the prices were highest, I could go to work by bike.
Before Katrina, the prices were between €1.20 and €1.25 per liter. At the highest, they were over €1.60 per liter.
(so from $6.42 to $6.68 per gallon to over $8.56 per gallon)
A lot of garages were very busy installing LPG tanks in cars at that time... (as that price was stable at around €0.40 per liter)