New Zealand 5 (or... Quit Whining!)

4-April-2011

Paul B. drives a little Subaru (sue-bah'-roo). He had to fill up with fuel after we drove to Kaiteriteri. He put in about thirteen and a half gallons of gas (petrol) at the local filling station. It wasn't cheap.

At $2.189NZ per liter, that comes to $8.29NZ a gallon. And that makes it (depending on the current exchange rate) about $6.50 a gallon.

Ouch.

Not looking forward to filling up the rental car this evening....

(By the way, the price on the far left is for diesel. Pretty much everywhere but the US diesel is substantially cheaper than gasoline/petrol. At that price using the same exchange rate as above, that comes to $4.00 a gallon. About the same as the US. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of very cool diesel vehicles here.)