[PRCo] Re: Costs

[Fred Schneider]

A lot less tax than in western Europe!!!   Now I have a clue why, when I drove
through the old Czechoslovakia, they required tourists to buy gas stamps at
inflated prices at the border ... they obviously didn't want people from Germany
crossing over just to fill up gas tanks.  fws

Boris Cefer wrote:

> In Czech Republic is gasoline in average at $0.97 a liter, which means about
> $3.67 a gallon.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:56 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398
>
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hey guys. I would really like to abandon California for a cheaper place
> > > to live. Any such place exist near PTM ???  Gas prices here are out of
> > > sight and now at $2.23 for reg. !!!!!
> >
> > That's free compared to Europe.
> >
> > There are plenty of cheap places to live around here, though sadly if you
> > want to live near one of the carlines it's probably a bit more. I
> > discarded the South Hills out of hand due to the Fort Pitt Bridge project
> > (which was on the drawing board when I bought). Still cheaper than
> > anywhere in CA I bet.
> >
> > It's over now, and I didn't hear any absolute horror stories from my
> > friends in Beechview during the project.
> >
> >
> >