 Fuel Price Cus For Rural Areas, Good News! |
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 Aug 1 2013, 04:11 PM
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Hopefully West Berks will benefit from this.
We have been ripped off for gas prices here for years; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-high...slands-23520072 |
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Aug 1 2013, 05:58 PM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Aug 1 2013, 05:11 PM)  Hopefully West Berks will benefit from this. We have been ripped off for gas prices here for years; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-high...slands-23520072 You obviously didn't read the article in enough detail Blake! The areas mentioned are England - Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, Northumberland. We'll have to hope for Asda to reduce our prices. |
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Aug 1 2013, 09:17 PM
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QUOTE (MontyPython @ Aug 1 2013, 06:58 PM) You obviously didn't read the article in enough detail Blake! The areas mentioned are England - Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, Northumberland. We'll have to hope for Asda to reduce our prices. And it is petrol, not gas. |
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Aug 2 2013, 09:54 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ Aug 1 2013, 10:17 PM) And it is petrol, not gas. Perhaps Blake is American. That's what I assumed anyway. |
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Aug 2 2013, 10:29 AM
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QUOTE (MontyPython @ Aug 1 2013, 07:58 PM) We'll have to hope for Asda to reduce our prices. Or a bigger Morrisons..........133.9p in Reading the other day. |
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Aug 2 2013, 10:55 AM
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At the risk of derailing the topic, I never understood Americans calling petrol 'gas'. It's a liquid when you put it into your vehicle.
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Aug 2 2013, 11:19 AM
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QUOTE (GhostMemory @ Aug 2 2013, 11:55 AM) At the risk of derailing the topic, I never understood Americans calling petrol 'gas'. It's a liquid when you put it into your vehicle. Err, it is short for 'gasoline'....which is the older word.
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Aug 2 2013, 12:03 PM
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The educational value of this forum is awesome as mentioned earlier this morning.
I was thinking of posting about Gasoline Alley from the 1970s album. But a comic strip of the same name has been running in American newspapers for almost a century. An innovative cartoon whose characters aged in real time. Baby..Teeen...WW2... mid life crisis. (Thanks to Wikipedia). Further essential derailment. Petroleum-Petrol-Pet-P ?. ce |
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Aug 2 2013, 12:17 PM
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QUOTE (GhostMemory @ Aug 2 2013, 12:55 PM) At the risk of derailing the topic, I never understood Americans calling petrol 'gas'. It's a liquid when you put it into your vehicle. Just looked it up and it would appear that "gasoline" is in fact the technically correct term! "Petroleum is a mixture of compounds that occurs naturally on Earth. Gasoline is a product drawn from petroleum through a refining process." |
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Aug 2 2013, 01:16 PM
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Similarly Kerosene/Paraffin, though you might be a bit disturbed to hear your Captain saying "We have just filled up the aircraft with paraffin".
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