Half a Tank of Petrol
Today, Mandy and I drove to Dubai through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The process of getting here over land is the story of a thousand and one Arabian immigration booths. It is a story that will be told, but tonight’s story is much shorter, much simpler.
On the way through Saudi, our SUV needed fuel. We were down to half a tank. All service stations here seem to be aptly named, so the gentleman filled our tank, topped it off about ten times, then took our hundred saudi riyal note. He gave us 75 saudi riyals plus ten Qatari rials, I don’t know why. At today’s
exchange rate, do you know how much we paid for roughly 25 litres of petrol?
4.78 Canadian.
Or about 21 cents per litre.
Seriously.
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