Thread: Why do they still use the 9/10 cent on gas prices?
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Default Why do they still use the 9/10 cent on gas prices?
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:56:41 -0400, devnull wrote:


On 09/18/2012 04:23 PM, wrote:

It seems that with gasoline being aound $4 a gallon, that 9/10 of a cent
makes little difference. Why do they still use it? Why did they use it
in the first place? Besides that, since a penny can not be broken down
any smaller than one cent, we always pay a fraction of a cent more than
the gas pump reads to compensate for that 9/10 of a penny anyhow.


Agreed!

And if I had my way, we'd just eliminate the penny. The things are
worthless...in fact so worthless that I just toss them in the trash.

Canada has already gotten rid of the penny.

Think "US Mint workers union"....

Jeff

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