"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 May 2010 17:43:45 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

In Europe, all fuels are expensive. Last time there I paid the
equivalent of $6.50 a gallon for heating oil.

Some one saw you coming... 46p/l roughly the current price for 28sec
heating oil at current exchange rates is US$2.50/US Gallon (remember
a US galllon is only 3.78l, an Imperial gallon is 4.54l).

US$6.50/US Gallon is about £1.18/l even when 28 sec was eye
wateringly expensive a year or so back it wasn't that much. Round
here it peaked at about 65p/l.

Now if you are talking about pump prices for petrol (gas) or diesel
those are currently about US$6.50/US Gallon.

In some countries the price of heating oil is about the same as the pump
price for diesel and yes, it is quite high. I think you are closer to the
oil fields and refineries too. Euro at the time was about 1.33. We only
needed about 5 gallons for our stay so it was not a big deal in the scheme
of things.