Saturday 3 September 2005

What Will You Drive When Petrol Costs One Mark Per Litre?

"Millä ajat kun bensa maksaa markan litra?"

The translation above. These words were in some old add, probaply in seventies. I remember seeing it scanned and in net, about year ago. I know I dont really have any readers, but in case I have one, and you know of this, and have the url, please paste it in the comments.

Anyway. Thanks to some world-market thingy that I fail to understand, Huricane Katrina, that leveled New Orleans the past week, causes the petrol price to up. This is pretty wierd, as America (USA/Mexico) dont import gasoline to Finland, and the problem is, anyway, in the fact that Katrina also leveled the docking bay of the oil tankers. So, Americans can't get all the petrol they need. Logically thinking, this should mean that one market for petrol is closed and there would be surplus of oil, that has to be sold somewhere else in the world, effectively pulling the price down.

But thanks to world economics, the price just climped to 1,5 euros per litre. That's nine old marks, fellows.

And the Americans dare to whine when they have to pay one dollar per gallon.

So, what will you drive when petrol costs ten old marks a litre? Thats what the question would be, if the add would be published today in the backcover of Tekniikan Maailma, or some other magazine of similar inclination. And the answer would be, of course, "bicycle".

EDIT: I remember there would have been one mark version, but this popped in net few hours ago:

1 comment:

  1. A bicycle is good for your health and doesn't pollute the environment. Pedal on, I say!

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