Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Trivia Pur$uit

Petrol has no specific freezing point. It freezes at any temperature between minus 117 Celsius and minus 150 Celsius. When it does freeze, it never solidifies totally, but resembles gum or wax.

4 comments:

Deborah Gamble said...

David,

I don't care so much about petrol freezing, but if someone could freeze the price of petrol... Maybe back to what it was a year ago, I'd be all ears then.

david mcmahon said...

Hi Debbie,

Good call. We're paying $1.45 a litre here. I know you pay per gallon in the US - what are the bowser prices there at the moment?

Thanks for that great perspective!

Cheers

David

Deborah Gamble said...

David,

Well over $3 a gallon. I think official average is $3.35 right now. Last year I was concerned when it first hit above $2 a gallon!

david mcmahon said...

Thanks Deborah,

As you can see, we get slugged a lot harder than you - about $A6.50 a gallon but that would convert (with currency exchanges) to about $US5 a gallon.

Keep smiling

David