Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It has gone up 10% here - duties form 47% of the cost. The government raised prices by 10%, and reduced duties by 10% to cushion the blow. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Doug is right, it is the change that matters more. While in the US it has > gone from $2 to $4, here in Spain a price of a liter of unleaded has gone > from around 1.10 EUR to 1.30 EUR during the past year. A substantial > increase to be sure, but far from dramatic. This is because 2/3 of the > price > at the pump is excise tax (varies a bit from country to country, can be as > much as 80% in some places), so it is only the remaining 1/3 that is > affected by the oil price; and because the oil price is denominated in USD, > and the dollar has fallen against the Euro during the past year, the price > of a barrel in EUR has not increased as much as it has in dollars. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:12 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote: > > grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: >> >> i would never make the statement that our fuel prices are higher than >>> those >>> in Europe or Australia. I know they are higher there, but they are very >>> high >>> right now for the US. >>> >> >> Rather than the absolute price, what we in the States/Colonies are having >> problems with is the percentage increase. Absent a change in driving >> habits, the added cost has to come from some other budgeted item. For >> some >> of us food or clothing is the only budget item that can be squeezed any >> more >> (good thing I don't have to cut back on film & processing). >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >