Before US invaded Iraq gas cost $0.1 per litre. Now its $1.3 a litre

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/055fe3e8901e65fe36ce0f1a211f56ca.htm

<snip>The price of petrol has risen 13 times from US $0.1 per litre in 2003 to US $1.3 in 2006, especially in the capital and the price for a bottle of gas for cooking has increased 32 times from US $0.5 to $16 per 20 litre.

The increase in petrol prices notwithstanding some of the queues at petrol stations are now over two kilometers long, this in a country which is ranked third in the world in terms of oil production. Iraqis can be seen sitting in their cars for hours on end in intense heat to get their cars filled - sometimes for prices that are 10 times higher than the normal ones.

[SnakeEyes]

1. Yikes! NT

[bainz]

2. litre? petrol? queues?

What is a Slide Rule, Alex?

Sorry :-)

:patriot:

[bluerum]

3. Hell-iburton has lot of overhead don't ya know. What with dead-eye

Dick's friend's all having kids in college and having to refurbish the yachts and all.

Pick dat cotton Iraqi slave. Pick dat cotton.

And don't fergit ta vote.