On Saturday, 4 March 2000 at 10:12:13 +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:56:08AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
>
>> "Koster, K.J." wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, those Americans. :-)
>>> Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands,
>>> times 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands.
>>> Everyone in the Netherlands drives cars; everyone thinks gas is expensive.
>>> This means that the gas prices in the US can go up 440% and people will
>>> still drive cars and buy gas (and complain about gas prices, of course).
>>
>> First, this off-topic for -hackers, so I've directed replies to -chat
>> if you want to continue.
>
> Sage advice :-)
>
>> Second, I know people that commute distances that would cross your
>> country. I suspect the average American uses a lot more gas than the
>> average Nederlander.
>
> Bah. In Western Australia there's a sheep station called "Little Texas"
> which just happens to have a land area larger than the state of Texas;
> I live in Adelaide, so I have to go 600 km East or 3000 km West or 3000 km
> North to find another population centre with more than 50,000 people;
> the nearest interstate Capital city is 980 km away.
Melbourne's 750 km.
> Our cities are also a hell of a lot more widely laid-out than yours:
> Adelaide, with a pop. of 1.1 million, has the same surface area as
> New York City.
I think you should take a look at Salt Lake City (where Wes lives)
before making that sort of claim. SLC is a lot wider than Adelaide.
> So let's accept that distances in the US are pissant little commuter
> hops, shall we? :-)
Depends on the part of the USA.
Greg
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