Back in "The Day", someone would come out to your car when you drove into the gas-station. Today, we are on our own and pay at the pump, and every day, we complain as the gas prices rise. Over in Norway....
Gas, in Europe is sold by the liter, while we think in terms of "gallons". There are 3.9 liters in a gallon, so, how many liters am I going to need to fill my 15 gallon tank, and how much is it going to cost??! --------That’s 60 liters!
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In Norway, gasoline prices have hit an all-time high.Even though Norway is an oil-producing nation, it’s always had high prices for gasoline (petrol) because of heavy taxes to discourage use of private cars. Now the prices are higher than ever before, because of rising oil prices and the strong Norwegian currency and the Libyan crisis.
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When converted to US dollars, Norwegians are now paying more than USD $10 a gallon for the standard grade of unleaded gasoline (called 95 blyfri). Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reports that posted prices at Shell stations in Norway, for example, hit NOK 14.12 per liter for unleaded this week, meaning it costs motorists as much as NOK 600 (USD $107) or more now to fill up their tanks.
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By the way, do you know who invented the gas-pump? It was John Tokheim. John was born in Odda, a town in the Handanger province of Norway. In 1887, he emigrated to America at the age of 16, and worked as a sheet-metal worker. Later , he began his own business, which included selling gasoline for stoves and lamps. Becoming annoyed by the messy " drum and spiggot" method of storage, he devised an underground storage tank of the liquid. In 1900, he received a patent for the "Visible Measuring Pump."
Between 1911 and 1939, Tokheim patented and produced the first-known electric gasoline pump.
------A Norwegian did it!-------
