[Sca-cooks] OT: gas/petrol prices after Katrina

[Mark Hendershott]

I'm waiting for the announcement from Washington that Halliburton got the 
contract to clean up the mess.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir

At 09:59 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote:
>Gas prices in Los Angeles are around three bucks today, plus-or-minus a 
>dime or three.
>
>On the other hand, I got this from my protege', a US expat with a new job 
>in Qatar:
>
>"Bought gas for the first time yesterday, a Mobil Oil petrol station.
>
>"Price per liter for super preimum unleaded was .80 dirhams a liter, total 
>fillup was 27 liters, for a total of QR 21.80
>
>"Or, to put it another way, the price was just slightly under .22 US cents 
>a liter, and the entire tankful was USD$5.91"
>
>Yeah, I told him in IM later that evening, but the MILEAGE to get to 
>Potrero War makes up for it.  He laughed.
>
>-=-=-=-
>
>My Miami correspondent reports that author Robert Asprin ["Yang The 
>Nauseating"] is alive and safe.  She didn't say who told her, or safe 
>WHERE, but that's reassuring anyway.  Jazz legend Fats Domino is still 
>missing.  As is his house.
>
>-=-=-=-
>
>I keep mis-typing "Katrina" as "Karina."  I'll have to tell that former 
>Laurel Queen of Arms, she will probably be at Angels Anniversary in her 
>neighborhood next week.  She'll get a laugh out of it.
>
>Selene
>
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