The new five dollar bill.

For our American friends that don't know, a litre is the same as an American quart so "littleman66" is bang on $5 a gallon, ouch.

longarm - the US dollar deflation is probably hurting us the most on exports as our product is now relatively expensive, tourism from the US is probably down as well, you used to get about $1.50 for your $1.00, now it's even. For the consumer things are in theory cheaper although it's taken a while to play out that way but if you order directly out of the US it's straight up cheaper. Our economy tends to mimic the States but not this time around. We don't have the fallout from the sub-prime motgage fiasco to contend with and we have a labour shortage so getting or changing jobs has never been easier. The gas has always been taxed insanely high here which is why it's so much higher than yours. Any time they need more money they through a few more pennies tax on it, pennies per litre that is.