I sure picked a good time to be in Turkey. For starters, they really don’t like us Americans here:
Turkey ‘most anti-US country’ in world, poll says
and it’s really hot! I haven’t been able to sleep well all week. Fortuneately I am getting air conditioning in my room in the next few days. I actually slept on my porch on the hottest day this week, but that didn’t help too much. Despite being on the sea, there was wind at all!
Officials said temperatures in the largest city Istanbul hit a seasonal record of 43.1 degrees Celsius in the district of Sile, the highest figure since weather services began keeping records in 1929.
and:
…temperatures expected to reach as high as 50 degrees today in places such as Antalya on the southern coast…?zmir’s ancient city of Ephesus was reported to be 60 degrees Celsius on Monday…
Lastly, gas is incredibly expensive here. Yesterday, to put gas in the car, I paid 3 ytl/lt. What is that in dollars/gallon?
3 ytl/lt * 3.785 lt/gal * 1 USD/1.31 ytl = 8.67 $/gallon.
Yes, incase you have trouble reading the above equation that is $8.67 for one gallon of gasoline.
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June 29th, 2007 - 3:32 pm
At that price for gas it would cost $398.82 to fill up my Ford-a-Saurus!!!!!!!!!!
June 29th, 2007 - 9:37 pm
are there any developments with the car window?
July 1st, 2007 - 12:48 pm
It’s all fixed! Got the car back on Friday.
July 2nd, 2007 - 3:18 am
That would be about the same for Stan’s new truck as the Ford-a-Saurus. I am curious about why the gas prices are so high when Turkey is surrounded by the top oil producers in the world?
The one thing I am very thankful for and it was a conscience decision years ago is we live 3 miles from work and I drive a fuel efficient car. I only put $20 in the car about once a month.
July 2nd, 2007 - 10:32 am
I don’t know, but high gas prices seems to be the thing in Europe. I think the US gas prices are very cheap because we strong arm our way into getting cheap prices. In Turkey, they don’t have their own oil reserves, and they don’t get along particuliarly well with their arab neighbors. I also think they may tax gas very highly to discourage people from driving so much and to encourage people to use public transportation. Traffic is a huge problem in Istanbul.
July 3rd, 2007 - 5:07 pm
The answer of course is tax. US tax on gas is something like $0.10 a liter, in Turkey it is $1.29 a liter, in Europe it is $0.50 to $1.10 a liter.
http://aydin.net/blog/2006/01/12/gas-costs-around-the-world/