Alcohol to Canada

dcmac214 wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

qtla9111 wrote:
And be prepared to pay through the nose. In 2014, gas was 5.75 a gallon in Langley, BC. The cheapest vodka was $25. We were almost dry on both accounts.

Gas is no where near 5.75 per US gallon. Right now gas is 1.11 Canadian per litre in my hometown in BC. That works out to 3.11 US dollars per US gallon. I know Vancouver area is a little more but no where near 5.75. Probably 3.50 ish.

1 Liter = 1.05 US Quart. An equivalent US gallon is pretty close to 4 liters, would cost about $4.44 at $1.11/L.

Nope. A US gallon is 3.8 litres. That's is 4.21 Canadian or about 3.11 US dollars. You can't use American gallons and Canadian dollars. Makes no sense. If an American puts a US gallon in a tank it will cost him about 3.11 US dollars. On our trip back from the US this year we saw as low as 2.79 US to as high as 3.07 US. In Alberta it was about 94 cents Can per litre at Costco so around 2.67 US dollars for a US gallon.

Generally people have no problem keeping foreign currency separate in their minds when it has a different name like the pound or the Euro or peso or dinar or whatever. But it gets confusing when two countries have the same name for their currency...the DOLLAR...and even worse when the countries are co-located on the same continent.