Sunday, May 4, 2003

Forget SARS at gas bars

Toronto has been revelling in week-end gas bar prices at 49.9 cents a liter - about 22 pence per litre for UK readers. This is a special promotion to kickstart the city after SARS - typical recent prices have been in the high sixties (30 pence per litre). There were moderate queues at filling stations yesterday - there would have been riots in the UK.
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