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Large fire in TO
Posted: 2/20/2008, 2:46 pm
by Kicker774
Word is theres a very large fire their having problems getting under control in Toronto in Queens st. 600 block.
Edge reports that's a lot of hazy smoke in the air.
Fortunatley doesn't sound like there are any casualties.
Hopefully this isn't affecting anyone here.
Posted: 2/20/2008, 3:15 pm
by Soozy
What is it with places catching on fire recently? First Camden, now this.
In slightly related news (I saw it on the CBC website while I went to look up the fire story), Canadian petrol is reallllly cheap - $1.20/litre max! I can't remember when it cost that much here. It was $2 here when I filled up on Monday - which is the cheapest it's been since before Christmas.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/0 ... rices.html
Posted: 2/20/2008, 3:36 pm
by Kicker774
Canada may not have the amount of taxes on gas the UK and europe does.
Let me try to do the math.
1 Gallon of Regular gas in the States is ~$3
1 Gallon = ~3.8 Liters
$1.20 * 3.8 = $4.56
(US and CAD are ~Par)
$4.56 = ~2.39 Brittish Pounds per Gallon of Gas
$1.20 = ~.61 Brittish pounds per Liter of gas
So working backwards ...
2 GBP = ~$3.94
So yes gas is considerably cheaper on this side of the hemisphere
Posted: 2/20/2008, 3:55 pm
by Soozy
Yeah, I think ours is mostly tax. It's still sucky though
Posted: 2/20/2008, 5:57 pm
by Neil
You made my head hurt just reading that math.
Posted: 2/21/2008, 11:45 am
by starseed_10
No way. Gas tax is such a good idea for so many reasons.
Posted: 2/21/2008, 1:24 pm
by Dr. Hobo
agreed
as for the fire.. i think i went to duke's a few times.. either that or its the store i always wanted to go to but never got around to doing for some reason
either way tho the store looked really cool and i definitely wanted to go in and stuff