RE: Re[2]: Becoming a DBA questions

From: Kimberly Smith <ksmith2_at_myfirstlink.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:00:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E99B1.20020108073532@fatcity.com>

You still pay about three times for gas. Gas prices in Canada as they are in parts of Europe but they are bad. Makes me want to throttle people in Oregon who complain about the gas prices out here. Especially since they have no sales tax.

You never know how good you have it until you don't.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:35 AM
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The Canadian gallon is not the same as the U.S. gallon. The Canadian gallon uses 5 qts. not 4.

My 0.03 Eureo's worth.
Ken

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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:40 PM

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Subject:        Re[2]: Becoming a DBA questions

Monday, January 07, 2002, 9:15:21 PM, you wrote: KS> I always find it funny when people do the conversions. I don't know how KS> many times I have to explain to people at work that $1 Canadian in Canada
KS> has the same buying power as $1 American in the US.

I'm not convinced of that. Last time I visited Canada, gas cost me more Canadian dollars per gallon that U.S. dollars per gallon in the states. Ditto for coffee, pop, candy bars, fast-food, etc. In many cases, portions were smaller. I'd buy a large coffee at McDonalds in Canada and it'd be a lot smaller than a U.S. large.

KS> Even funny is when I point out there was a time (and that is in my lifetime)
KS> when Canadians flocked to the US to buy cause our dollar was worth more. KS> They just won't believe me but I swear to god it's true.

I distinctly remember this. I don't remember the flocking part, but I clearly remember a brief time back when I was a teenager that the Canadian dollar was worth a few cents more than ours. So now you've found at least one person who believes.

Canada's my favorite vacation destination, btw. I had the holidays off and tried to convince my daughter to go on a rail/bus trip to Moosonee. I was really excited about the idea, but Jenny wouldn't hear of it. She actually got mad at me for even suggestion we travel farther north. So I gave up on Moosonee for now, and I'm looking at maybe doing a weekend rail trip to Hearst with my son.

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick
mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com * http://ValleySpur.com

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