Originally Posted by Velouria

just drove past the 7/11

petrol is at 69.4 cents per litre! never seen it this low in a long time :)

just thought id share that is all

Originally Posted by torticat

81.9 here in Halifax!!!

On it's way down i hope then i can buy my SUV a full tank for Xmas.....

Originally Posted by willmore

We were paying 84.5 when we left Victoria a week ago Monday....got to Ontario and it was as low as 67.9 in St. Jacobs.....unbelieveable. Over the summer in Victoria we were paying 98.5........

Originally Posted by iaink

Dont hurt me, but its 64.9 here! No kiding!

Originally Posted by iaink

Dont hurt me, but its 64.9 here! No kiding!

Originally Posted by willmore

but that's the price of living in paradise......

Originally Posted by Rhodes

I find it difficult to have sympathy even with the lovely willmore, as we are paying about 85 pence a litre here in Blighty.

Originally Posted by Velouria

wow! id drive over and fill up there if it wouldnt take me the better part of three days :)

Originally Posted by ClareBC

that's odd, when we left UK August 2001 we were paying 88p a litre, and petrol was just over 40c a litre here - so by now it has doubled in Canada.... but not in UK? :confused:

Clare

Originally Posted by iaink

Dont bother...its jumped up to 74.9 now. I dont understand the mechanism here, it Jump up 10c+ at a time, but then slowly trickles down before jumping again.

Originally Posted by Velouria

in montreal - they put it up on weekends, and earlier on long weekends... damn i should fill mine up before i go back to work!!

Originally Posted by ksct97

do they!!! i hadn't realised... then again i've only had my car for a fortnight!

Originally Posted by Velouria

well thats what my dad has been saying - id be interested to know if it was really true!

Originally Posted by iaink

Dont bother...its jumped up to 74.9 now. I dont understand the mechanism here, it Jump up 10c+ at a time, but then slowly trickles down before jumping again.

Originally Posted by Sean Boxer

A car related question.

Are cats eyes used anywhere in Canada, apart from in cats obviously.
My wife said they probably couldn't be used here as the snow ploughs would ave em up.

God, my wife an I are boring.

Originally Posted by owen

Just paid $2.07 per litre on way home for xmas on M6 cheshire. :scared:

Originally Posted by willmore

what are cat eyes.....?

Originally Posted by Rhodes

No need to regret it - they're reflective glass things that mark the lines on unlit roads when car headlights shine on them. They're excellent.

Originally Posted by willmore

Got it.....we have them in Canada on our highways as well, just never heard them called that, I guess I call them reflective lights on the highway. Just different terms meaning the same....

Originally Posted by iaink

Must be a BC thing, I think Ive seen them once in Ontario (probably as an experiment), and in the spring they were gone...probably picked off by a snow plough

True cats eyes are on a little rubber mount, so when they are driven over, they pop down and up again, and the glass reflector is wiped clean in the process. As a kid on merseyside we used to delight in trying to pick the damned things out of there rubber holders..I dont remember why!

http://www.design-technology.info/inventors/page14.htm

Originally Posted by Rhodes

I have never seen them in Ontario.

We usd to try to pick the things out, too - and I was brought up in Hertfrodshir,e so don't have the same excuse. ;)

Originally Posted by Velouria

whereabouts in herts?

Originally Posted by Rhodes

I was born in St Albans, but lived from the age of (nearly) 5 in Hitchin.

Originally Posted by willmore

I thought he was referring to a "search light"

Originally Posted by Sean Boxer

He . . . . HE????
What am I Willmore, the cat's mother???

Originally Posted by willmore

If that's what you wish to be....who am I to take away your dream? :p

Originally Posted by Sean Boxer

OK, a cats mother in adult diapers - nice!