There is a photo up on Snopes.com which has been submitted as an urban legend. It shows a petrol station in Georgia charging $6.00 for a gallon of gas — the person who sent it in thought it must have been photoshopped. Such prices were surely illegal. Indeed, in Georgia, they are. The governor has come over all socialist and found a law which forbids profiteering at the pumps; and prices will only “soar” toward $3.00 a gallon.
Assuming Google uses American gallons, I am paying about £3.60 for an American gallon of gas, or $6.55. Let’s say it takes ten years before the US catches up with this level. We have there a service-based economy in which the servant clases drive to work to serve customers who have driven to shop. What happens when they can’t afford to drive? What happens here, in the outlying provinces?
Chimes in with an email I had from my son, at university in Texas.
Hi Dad,
Long story short:
Hurricane Katrina = evacuation of oil rigs + increase cost in tanker transport = $3.78 a gallon.
Up a dollar since one week ago, so at 37 gallons to fill my car comes to just under $140.
Bollox.
Cheers,
Ben
37 Gallons? What is he driving?