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Old 25-05-2006, 10:22 AM   #1
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Smile General Motors has offered to subsidise petrol prices for drivers of its vehicles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5011794.stm

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Old 25-05-2006, 02:53 PM   #2
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Interesting.
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Old 25-05-2006, 02:55 PM   #3
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Will they call GE finance to help:P
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Old 25-05-2006, 03:15 PM   #4
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Very clever...
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Old 26-05-2006, 11:55 PM   #5
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error: see rant below

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Old 27-05-2006, 12:01 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by BBC News
"US average gasoline prices are close to $3 a gallon, prompting complaints from consumers and warnings it would lead to a spending slump."
How stupid!

$3 a gallon!!! Oh no the poor yanks, how WILL they survive?

$3 a gallon is 79 cents a litre!

In aussie dollars thats still only $1.04 a litre!

I WISH we were only paying that much.

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GM plans to cap petrol prices at $1.99 (£1.05) a gallon for buyers of certain 2006 and 2007 SUV and mid-size cars.
Brilliant idea GM! subsidise the cost of petrol down to 52 cents a litre so that 300 million Americans can continue to pump what little fossil fuel is left into their stupid big SUVs.

JUST GREAT! :jab:
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Old 27-05-2006, 01:12 AM   #7
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In KL, there are still paying something like 70+ cents a litre was truely amazing, when I told the taxi driver that have not seen those prices in Aust since the 80's 90's, he could not belive it.
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