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To: MadIvan
Driving down the M40 on Friday, I passed petrol stations selling regular unleaded at 97.9 pence per litre. That works out at $6.62 a gallon.

What is he using? British math? There are less than 4 litres per gallon. That means that "petrol, my dear diddums" is less than $4/gallon.

11 posted on 04/30/2006 3:48:16 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: raybbr; MadIvan
What is he using? British math? There are less than 4 litres per gallon. That means that "petrol, my dear diddums" is less than $4/gallon.

OOOOPPPPPSSSS! 97.6 pence!

You Brits got to change that - it sounds too much like pennies. :)

(After a long run through the woods the oxygen was trapped in my legs slowing down my brain.)

13 posted on 04/30/2006 3:59:34 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: raybbr

pence are worth more than pennies.


14 posted on 04/30/2006 3:59:56 AM PDT by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: raybbr
What is he using? British math? There are less than 4 litres per gallon. That means that "petrol, my dear diddums" is less than $4/gallon.

I think that 97.9 pence is a portion of the British pound which when converted to dollars would account for the $6 + per gallon amount.

20 posted on 04/30/2006 5:13:06 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: raybbr

3.66 Liters per gallon means a gallon costs 3.66 X 97.6 pence = 3.57 british pounds.

Exchange rate = 6.52 US Dollars


25 posted on 04/30/2006 6:04:41 AM PDT by montomike (If you didn't find this funny and were offended...have a riot.)
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To: raybbr

97.9 pence is not the same as 97.9 CENTS....


29 posted on 04/30/2006 6:54:06 AM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
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To: raybbr; palmer; USS Alaska; montomike; TheBattman
Ahem! How many of you saw my self-correction but still had to give me a slap?

OOOOPPPPPSSSS! 97.6 pence!

You Brits got to change that - it sounds too much like pennies. :)

(After a long run through the woods the oxygen was trapped in my legs slowing down my brain.)

:)

73 posted on 05/01/2006 3:10:55 AM PDT by raybbr (Please don't call me Penceboy!!!!!!!)
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