Saturday, April 19, 2008

Gasoline

Earlier today I was driving down the D-100 in Istanbul and noticed that gas was going for 3.4 YTL (currently, 1.32 YTL = 1 USD) per liter. This totals almost $10.50/gallon, and we thought we had it bad in Michigan. Diesel is a slightly more bearable 2.9YTL/liter...

Some dude named Furkan Alp just wrote an editorial essentially stating to relax, prices for barrels of oil (in dollars) has greatly increased but not for liters of gasoline in YTL (Yeni Turk Lirasi) over the last 13 months...

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