Guilty, nostalgic pleasures.

[gridlore]

Channel surfing last night, I happened across one of my favorite movies of all time, Smokey and the Bandit. Great, mindless fun with Burt Reynolds.

But what really caught my attention was the gas prices we see along the way. Unleaded, 38 cents a gallon. Diesel, 49 cents a gallon. Amazing.

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[kshandra]

I do my best to keep remembering that the prices per gallon we're seeing in the US have been the per-liter prices overseas for years, now. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, that $1.30/litre price is the Australian urban rate. Head into the outback, and it's closer to $2/litre (when you can get fuel at all; NT maps commonly have icons on them showing what types of fuel are available where, including "emergency fuel only" spots).

It's not uncommon for it to take a couple of hundred dollars to fill the tank on a large 4WD.