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Americans: permission granted to laugh your asses off..

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:49 am
by Marcel
This sunday Tango, a dutch chain of unmanned gasstations, celebrates their 10th year of exsistence. To celebrate they'll serve gas at the prices from ten years ago, and people here are going nuts.

FYI: 10 years ago gas was € 1.15 per liter($ 5.50/gallon), currently € 1.50 per liter($ 7.20/gallon) :shock:

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:41 am
by Midnight_Rider
Wow, that is still too high! I remember the first time that regular gas in Indianapolis hit $1.00 a gallon- 9/11/2001. Premium at a BP station in Crawfordsville, IN was going for $1.87 on May 29th, 2006 (I remember this since it was the day that I brought my SRT home from the dealership).

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:57 am
by Marcel
you're telling me :P

truth is, of that € 1.50, 72 cent is taxes.

Funny thing is though:
bare selling price gas + 72 cent taxes = selling price, right?

NO!
extra tax 19% >_< so you're paying TAXES over TAXES!!! *sighs*

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:49 pm
by Paul56
I remember paying $3.50 to fill a 5 gallon can for the boat.

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:00 pm
by Jo-XL
Don't forget the hated "kwartje van Kok" Marcel.

We pay 3 kinds of taxes on our gas, and the taxes are still rising.

Re: Americans: permission granted to laugh your asses off..

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:32 pm
by r/tguy02
Marcel wrote: and people here are going nuts.
i can imagine at those prices, probably lines a mile long.

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:45 pm
by Marcel
....and i'll be one of them :lol:

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:40 pm
by Jo-XL
Just say some news items on different channels. It was crazy :shock:

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:17 pm
by dutch animal
standing in a line of 5 miles, filled with empty cars and cranky people .. all that to save 17 euro's of gas on a full tank :P

people are crazy .. i am lazy :D

you know the dutch invented the koper wire !!!
2 dutchies were fighting over a penny .. and pulled and pulled and pulled .. there was the wire :P :P :P

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:56 pm
by Marcel
yeah i last minute pulled out on this, i was afraid to make the line 6 miles long :P So instead i went out for some exercise ;)

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:16 pm
by Jo-XL
Here's a youtube movie from a news item.

The American viewers probably won't understand what we are saying, but you get a good look what took place today here in Holland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj8_gOw9 ... r_embedded#

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:06 pm
by Marcel
....how low people can go just to save up to € 20 of gas... I'm very happy i still got little more dignity than that!! :lol:

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:54 pm
by Pocahontas
Whoa... well, something is something right?