By Robyn Churchill (BonaireTalker - Post #37) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 1:22 am: |
I'm a trip leader for a very active scuba club in S. Florida. I'm bringing my group of 16 to Bonaire in July, and we're doing a "drive and dive" package.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1704) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 8:15 am: |
I just paid Nafl 1.43 per liter which is US .81 per liter.
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By C. Kritagent (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #315) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 8:30 am: |
The ways things are going stateside we will pass Bonaire prices by July...Whatta rip-off !!!
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By Robyn Churchill (BonaireTalker - Post #38) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 8:36 am: |
Thanks for the info Linda. Yes, it does seem like gas is a big rip-off! I hope we don't catch up to Bonaire too quickly,,,I just calculated $3.78 per gallon!
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By Robyn Churchill (BonaireTalker - Post #39) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 8:40 am: |
oop,,I missed a step,,,now I get $3.06 per gallon. Don't ever try to do math before you've had your morning coffee!!!
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1705) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 10:55 am: |
Notice I left the liter to gallon conversion to someone else. I'm still working on the coffee and didn't want to hurt myself.
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By Martin de Weger (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3132) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 2:59 pm: |
Just a small example of a rip off... Here in Holland we pay approx. € 1.22 per liter. That's approx. 1.51 US$ per Liter. I'm too tired to convert that to Gallons...
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By Bob Lyke (BonaireTalker - Post #31) on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 4:12 pm: |
If you use a credit card to pay for the gas you may be subject to an additional charge. I believe I paid an additional US$1.50 to use a credit card when I filled up at Lisa Gas.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1698) on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 10:22 am: |
And the crude oil that the gasoline is only part of costs the producers just less than US$3 per barrel (that is 44 US gallons or 166 liters) to deliver to the tanker where the refiners (and, therefor, us) pay US$30 or so for that same barrel. That is the real ripoff.
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By Angela Cristan (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #330) on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 4:09 pm: |
Keep in mind everybody, that these people on the island have to pay to refine the petro, store it, and transfer it to the station. As we all know, Bonaire is not a large island and I think in the two (seperate weeks, 1 year apart) weeks that we stayed there we filled up maybe twice a week and did A LOT of shore diving and drove to Rincon and Slahgbhaii (spelling!?) at least once a week. We also did several trips to the salt flats, slave huts, Indian inscriptions, up to Jibe City, Lac Bay, etc... Not to mention the daily (if not 2-3 times) trips into town from the Black Durgon. To me it doesn't seem like that big of an expense to incur for what you get out of the trip- you would spend just as much, if not more staying in a big city for a week or two and site seeing (seeing as how they are much more spread out)! That's just me, though!
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By Larry Leonard (BonaireTalker - Post #43) on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 10:59 am: |
I hear that gas in San Diego is already at $2.749 US per gallon for the "cheap" stuff. Out where I live in VA it is $1.529 and I still feel bad filling up. I was about in tears putting 61 gallons in my RV for a recent trip.
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By Corney Ann Carter (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #201) on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 12:29 pm: |
We talked to a couple working on a 72' motor yacht and they had just come from Venezuela where it was .12 per liter. We spent 92 guilders on gas in the 3 weeks we were on Bonaire.
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