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[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

This is $4.46 USD a gallon, for us Imperial scum.

Divide by 25. That should be a fairly accurate conversion factor for a while, as long as the American dollar hangs by a thread around $1.05 CDN.

The division factor of 25 is pretty close. But the $4.46 figure is high by a factor of (1.05)^2

3.7854 litre = 1 US gallon, and at current rates 1.05 $CAN = 1.00 $US.

So conversion from Canadian cents per litre to US dollars per US gallon goes like this:

111.4 Canadian cents / litre x (1 Canadian dollar / 100 Canadian cents) x (1 US dollar / 1.05 Canadian dollar ) x ( 3.7854 litre / 1 US gallon ) = 4.016 US dollar / US gallon

So poor Karthik has to pay over $4 a gallon, which looks like highway robbery when compared to the $2.49 a gallon I paid this afternoon in St. Louis. On the other hand, Karthik gets off easy compared to our European friends who are paying about $6 a gallon today.

The difference is due to Europeans' willingness to pay higher gas taxes than Canadians and Americans will stand for. Green policies are apparently worth more to Europeans. Maybe we should take a lesson from them on our side of the ocean.

Until then, take Travis' advice and gas up in the US before you drive to Canada.