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Old 07-02-2010, 03:01 PM   #40 (permalink)
Laurentiu
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
But they don't have to do that. It's just that it's cheaper for the manufacturers to build them like that, if they can get away with it.

And we're still not seeing $3.50/gal gas around here. It's been bouncing around $2.95 - $3.10 for months...
ya , you're right about that, I hope the situation will change in the future and more strict regulations will have to be met by "mosquito" manufacturers

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Here in Cyprus the price now is about 5.25 $/US gallon (1.1 EUR/liter) and of course if I we to calculate using the exchange rate from few months ago when the dollar was weaker, it would be much higher. In the Netherlands , Norway, gas is ~ 8$/US gallon
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