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>>FWIW, gas prices have returned to semi-sane levels here. Within days of Hurricane Katrina pump prices shot up to over $3.00 per gallon. I filled up yesterday and it was $2.35/gallon. Nooooo, the oil companies weren't taking advantage of a catastrophe to gouge us, oh, no....
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>I think prices peaked here at about 99p/litre (what's that - around $6.50 per US gallon?). It might have gone higher but at a lot of filling stations the pumps just weren't designed to deal with anything greater than 99p/litre - not enough lcds to display 100 ! <g>
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Something similar happened here. Some of the older gas pumps (roughly 20% of those in service IIRC) could not display prices higher than $3.00/gallon. They had to temporarily close down until they could get permission from the regulatory agency to display prices per half gallon rather than per gallon. What a pageant.