Canadian sticker shock
This is our first trip to Canada to amount to anything. We arrived in Calgary Tuesday afternoon. First shock was the gas pump. 82l of diesel for $152.00. I understand the exchange rate and all but I s...
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JaxDad wrote:campigloo wrote:
We arrived in Calgary Tuesday afternoon. First shock was the gas pump. 82l of diesel for $152.00. I understand the exchange rate and all but I scraped my chin when I picked my jaw up off the ground.
I suspect you messed up the mathematics somewhere in all of that.
GasBuddy shows that the current price of diesel in Calgary is about $1.25 / liter.
With a CDN dollar worth about US$0.75 that means it’s about US$0.94 / liter (US$3.55 / US gallon) so 82 litres would be about $102.50 CDN or US$77.08.
The math may be messed up, but where the OP comes from, a gallon of diesel is worth between US$2.75 and US$2.96. So US$3.55/gallon in Canada is a bit of a shock I'd imagine? Must have thought he made a wrong turn and wound up in Calgaryfornia. :)
