The price of gas in Canada
Free Press columnist Matt Helms just returned from Canada and has an alarming report on the price Canadians are paying for gas.
"At some places it was $1.21. That doesn't sound so awful until you do the math. That price is per liter, and one of our gallons equates to about 3.785 liters. That means we paid the equivalent of almost $4.58 a gallon."
I experienced this phenomenon on a road trip to Ottawa last Labor Day. I was shocked at how much it cost to fill up my Saturn, which is hardly a gas guzzler. While I was there it occurred to me that going to Canada these days is an easy way to experiment with a question I had pondered for some time: namely, how would people's behavior change if (and likely when) gas cost $5 a gallon. I was shocked that the answer is nothing much changes. People still drive a lot. People still drive SUV's. People still drive fast. And nary a Smart Car was seen.
"At some places it was $1.21. That doesn't sound so awful until you do the math. That price is per liter, and one of our gallons equates to about 3.785 liters. That means we paid the equivalent of almost $4.58 a gallon."
I experienced this phenomenon on a road trip to Ottawa last Labor Day. I was shocked at how much it cost to fill up my Saturn, which is hardly a gas guzzler. While I was there it occurred to me that going to Canada these days is an easy way to experiment with a question I had pondered for some time: namely, how would people's behavior change if (and likely when) gas cost $5 a gallon. I was shocked that the answer is nothing much changes. People still drive a lot. People still drive SUV's. People still drive fast. And nary a Smart Car was seen.
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