Re: re CalcPlus - FREE from Microsoft.
From: David Candy (.)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:14:00 +1100
I much prefer guinea for currency work. All furniture was sold in guinea untill 66 in Australia.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message news:RqgMd.1342$al3.285@newsfe1-win.ntli.net... > Didn't take much to get you drunk! 1n 1969 - 1 gallon at 6s8d left you 3s4d > change out of 10 bob - don't recall beer price in 1969 but on > "decimalisation day" (Feb 1971) it was 3s (15p) a pint, though, as now, > prices varied regionally. So, out of 3s4d you got drunk AND had supper on > the way home? WOW!! (Think your telling me porkies - you had a whole QUID to > spend!) > > Less of the old - I'm only 62! (g). Owned 26 m/bikes 1959 - 1972, have > driven >250 (lost count now). Mainly British, didn't like Triumphs (too much > tappet rattle). Alas! moved to London from Yorkshire, essentially forced > into cars, cities no good for bikers. > > Accept your point about increased fuel density in Canada, but surely that's > only worth 2-3 mpg improvement (and don't you lose that by having to put > some in a pan, light it and put it under the sump to fluidise the frozen oil > on a winter morning?) > > Cheers! Len. > > "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message > news:uwvsEwVCFHA.3784@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... >> >> "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message >> news:OB7Md.365$Dm5.250@newsfe2-win.ntli.net... >>> Hi, Mike, you're an MS-MVP. I'm just a pleb, unqualified to comment on >>> your first para ...on your head be it! >> >> lol.. >> >>> >>> Re petrol in UK sold in litres ... changed so many years ago, I >>> disremember whether it was a UK Government initiative, or a Brussels >>> directive rubber-stamped here (as so many changes are) >>> BUT - the effect is not only to hide the real cost of a gallon, that's >>> cosmetic.. The REAL cruncher is the hidden tax hikes. >> >> I am all for Brussels directives (except for the perfectly straight >> bananas and all mange-tout peas having to be the same size crap).. there >> is no doubt that supplying in litres made it look way better for HMG.. >> have you noticed that HMG only applies Brussels directives that will make >> HMG employees look less like legalised bandits?.. >> >>> >>> When the Chancellor announces "2p a litre tax rise" on fuel, it's not 2p, >>> it's 2p PLUS VAT at 17.5%. Fuel has to be delivered, and by the time the >>> add-on costs are calculated (adding VAT at 17.5% at every stage) and >>> rounded up, it's not 2p but 3p (or more) at the pump, to the consumer. >>> One can understand the Chancellor not wishing to announce 9 pence a >>> gallon tax hike, with 13.5 pence the actual increase! >>> Some-one somwhere will no doubt have the actual figure, but, in round >>> terms, total UK taxes on fuel is about 300%. >>> >>> (Same thing happens with beer - 1p a pint on duty becomes 3p a pint or >>> more, at the bar, same rationale). >> >> >> And don't you love the way that the Chancellor places tax on stuff but not >> for a year maybe, and then when the time comes for all to pay up, he >> sticks another tax increase in payable from midnight.. :) >> >> >>> I had to smile, a while back, at a US news item - the furore when petrol >>> increased to $1 a gallon - on today's (approximate) exchange rate, that's >>> about £0.55 a gallon.(£0.46 per US gallon). The last time petrol was 55 >>> pence a gallon in UK was about 1974/5 (the first "oil crisis"). >>> I worked for a US multinational (retired 6 years ago) did some >>> comparative work on transport costs - US inland freight rates were a >>> quarter of those here (based on standard miles). >>> >>> Today's pump price is £0.83/ltr, that's £3.77 a gallon or, $6.03 per US >>> gallon (using CalcPlus, and exch rate $1.92 = £1) Bet you're glad to be >>> 'tother side of the pond, in this respect at least! >> >> >> Canadians get hussled in the same way as Brits.. our gas is sold by the >> litre and is presently 80¢ per litre locally and a gallon here is a UK >> gallon, not the smaller US gallon.. in real terms, the US price advantage >> is not as good as it appears,but still a whole lot better than the >> UK/Euro.. >> >> Gas (petrol) consumption is affected by a few factors, one of which is >> temperature.. this evens the balance more still as colder air found in the >> Great White North and the UK, being more dense, improves efficiency over >> those living in hotter climes to the south.. in this way, the deal that >> some US people get is worse still. :) >> >>> >>> When I first started motoring (1959) petrol was 2/- (two shillings, = >>> £0.10p) a gallon. Happy days! >> >> Wow, you are old.. :) .. my first recollection of gas prices was paying 6s >> 8d for a gallon of five star back in '69.. for 10 'bob', I could get a >> gallon of gas for the CB750, get drunk and top it all off with a pork >> batch from Brookies (a locally famous butcher/pork batch shop in Earlson, >> Coventry UK) >> >> >> -- >> Mike Hall >> MVP - Windows Shell/user >> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm >> > >
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