Image talk:Shell logo from petrol station.jpg
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I'm 21... I don't believe that the price of gas was EVER that low... Or is that high? The lack of a dollar or cent sign is confusing me! NickSentowski 18:00, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- High, it's in pounds. And you would struggle to find petrol for that price in the UK now, the price has gone up substantially since then. Leithp 18:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
77 pounds sterling = $135 US dollars. If that's per gallon, I find it very hard to believe the price of gas in Britain is more than forty times what it is in the US. LockeShocke 22:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Nevermind: since it's in liters... and a liter is just over a quarter of a gallon, that means gas would be $540 per gallon. Now it's clear that it's in pence, not pounds sterling. LockeShocke 22:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Since I'm bored: £0.779 = US$1.387, 1 liter = 0.26 gallons, therefore £0.779/liter = US$5.25/gallon, or thereabouts. Sources: XE.com, Google calulator, my brain. Electrode 22:22, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
As petrol is now more like 90 pence per litre in the UK, perhaps a more recent photograph is called for. The unrealisticly low price of the petrol does distract from the point of the photograph (to illustrate a story about Shell).
DONE!!! -- NickSentowski 07:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I think a better picture would be nice - this one is graffiti-ed, which hardly reflects well on anyone.
Also @NickSentowski, how often have you seen "gas" prices in the US in litres (or should I say liters?). Neilgravir 22:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
