> OK, one more - why are
> some fairly simple electronic parts and supplies so expensive there also??

Why am I suddenly a bit depressed to be a Brit? :o)

Trev


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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Bond, Peter
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>
> > >PS    $1.14 per gallon - eat your heart out POMs!
> >
> > Well at 70.9p/litre for unleaded at about US$1.45/GBP, and around 4.45
> > l/imperial gallon (don't know what it is to a US gallon), that's about
> > US1.02/litre, about US$4.57/imp gallon. Its not called "rip
> > off Britain" for
> > nothing. 4 Star and Diesel are even more.
>
> 1 US gallon = 8 * 16flOz = 3.785l
> 1 Imperial gallon = 8 * 20 US flOz = 4.546l
>
> (and, apparently, 1 US fl Oz = 1.0408 Imperial fl Oz, which wasn't one I
> knew before)
>
> Hence bemused British tourists getting something they don't quite
> recognise
> as a pint in the US...
>
> Peter
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