Comments on: Petrol Prices According To Twitter

By: dswaters

dswaters — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0000

Hi Paul – yes it was interesting to learn more about each other and petrol prices regardless of where we live is an aspect that influences us all. Personally I gave up years ago worrying about the price of petrol because the only certainty for me was it just kept increasing.

Hi Joel – how do the petrol suppliers control their petrol in US? Can they alter their prices during the day or is it set like ours?

Good to hear Andrew that Perth and the Hunter have similar petrol prices. Mmmm Mars bar – are they sold throughout the World? I thought maybe we could now compare MacDonald meals because MacDonalds are everywhere.

Agreed Simon – twitter is so useful in so many different contexts. Looking forward to all the twitters on Christmas day.

Kristen thanks for stating the discussion on petrol prices – it was fascinating to learn about what happens in other countries and good fun doing all the different conversions.

Good point Darren and I did consider the different options. Thanks for pointing out about how to go back through the archives because I did not realise that. I decided to blog it for a number of reasons: the conversation occurred over about 13 hours on twitter; not everyone is following each other; and due to my number of followers and amount of twitters it was really hard to follow the conversations.

Yes Paul it definitely makes the World feel a lot smaller — although I really think we all need to be on the same timezone — it does feel like we are awake all the time with twitter. If we go back to Kristen’s original thought about the cost of living I think people in the UK would still lose out because everything is so much more expensive where you live.

By: Paul Webster

Paul Webster — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:22:16 +0000

Hi Sue
It does make the world seem smaller if bloggers and twitter’s collaborate their thoughts.
Laura – even here in my semi-urban location petrol is £0.99 a litre at the supermarkets.
Its true we don’t drive long distances as much in the UK and personally I try to advocate use of public transport. I drive 10 miles to a railway station and let the train do the work for the rest of my journey to the office!
Paul

By: Darren Draper

Darren Draper — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:51:39 +0000

Hey Sue,

Writing extensive blog posts about quality twitter tweets isn’t the only way to preserve them: don’t forget to star your favorites. Also, your own tweets are all archived – this page shows your tweets from August, for example:

http://twitter.com/dswaters?page=150

(Just change the page number to go quickly back).

By: Kristin Hokanson

Kristin Hokanson — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:04:58 +0000

Once again Sue my egocentrism as a US citizen shined through

I was having a thought…the price of gas in the US continues to rise….what percentage of our income fills our cars on a weekly basis. But I never stopped to think that monetary denominations…like timezones are not universal…

Thanks for taking the time not only to poll your network but to translate and make me think more globally!!!!

By: Simon Brown

Simon Brown — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:28:02 +0000

Nice work Sue – you’ve encouraged a real collaborative effort – just shows how Twitter can be useful in all sorts of contexts

By: Andrew Dickinson

Andrew Dickinson — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:40:26 +0000

Hi Sue,

Great work, and good to see we don’t pay the most. Here in “The Hunter” we pay about $1.47AUD per litre (last I remmebr looking anyway).

Annother good comparison according to my late Father is Mars Bars. He always said you can tell a lot about an economy by lookng at what they pay for a Mars Bar. I suppose it would have some merit, maybe you could look into that as well.

Cheers,

Andrew. (TFT)

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By: Joel McDonald

Joel McDonald — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:56:11 +0000

Our prices are on flux and very a great deal while traveling around. I paid as much as $3.24 a gallon at a station while traveling back from Florida a couple weeks ago.

Around home, prices seem to have fallen from $2.99 to about $2.84 over the last few weeks.

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