Gas Up: July 10

The price of gas at my neighbourhood station went up 3¢ a litre yesterday, so now I pay $147.9 per litre. Unfortunately, right after the price went up my guage went to empty.

The people you see under the sign are the Chinese immigrant couple who live several houses down. They’ve been picking wildflowers and she’s carrying a wicker basket full of them.

In the comments to last week’s post, Neil gave a link to a photo he took of the price of gas in the Highlands of Scotland. He explains what this price really means:

1.33 doesn’t seem bad until you realise that this is pound/litre - if you convert, that is £9.96/gallon.

Neil adds:

Back home in Edinburgh it is a bit lower at £1.16/litre. Note that well over half of this is tax.

And Dorothy gives us her weekly report from Illinois.

Why not add your gas price report? Where are you and what are you paying? Is that up or down from what it’s been?

Update on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:43PM by rebecca

Nai tells us that gas is cheaper in Indonesia:

In Indonesia, the price for the gas also rising up. In fact, it has brought a lot od pro and cons. The problem is peoples are not ready with the rising. Like for premium..from Rp.4500,-($0.29/litre) to Rp. 6000,- ($0,64/litre) it might seem small compare to the price in the US. But, it has a lot of impacts. Now, for a week I will end up paying Rp. 210.000,- ( $22.5). Further more, the price of Pertamax is raising every month ( in fact, the price can be raise twice in one month ) now per litre wehave to pay Rp. 10009,- ( $1.07/litre)

Interested on moving to Indonesia ? The gas are far cheaper :)

Thank you, Nai, for adding Indonesia to our gas price reports.

Update on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 7:51PM by rebecca

Threegirldad reports from Wichita:

Here in “The Peerless Princess of the Plains” (ahem), it went from $3.78 to $3.89 on Thursday.

Happy Birthday John!

John Calvin, that is.

Quoting from Sherry at Semicolon:

On this date in 1509, John Calvin, or Jean Chauvin, was born in Noyon, Picardie, France. 

To mark the day, Sherry is collecting links to posts about  John Calvin.  I’m going to take the lazy (or busy) woman’s easy way out and post a hymn written by John Calvin, a hymn which celebrates the sufficiency of Christ.

I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art

I greet Thee, who my sure Redeemer art,
My only trust and Savior of my heart,
Who pain didst undergo for my poor sake;
I pray Thee from our hearts all cares to take.

Thou art the King of mercy and of grace,
Reigning omnipotent in every place;
So come, O King, and our whole being sway;
Shine on us with the light of Thy pure day.

Thou art the life, by which alone we live,
And all our substance and our strength receive;
Sustain us by Thy faith and by Thy power,
And give us strength in every trying hour.

Thou hast the true and perfect gentleness,
No harshness hast Thou and no bitterness;
O grant to us the grace we find in Thee,
That we may dwell in perfect unity.

Our hope is in no other save in Thee;
Our faith is built upon Thy promise free;
Lord, give us peace, and make us calm and sure,
That in Thy strength we evermore endure.

It’s a fine hymn. If you’d like to hear it sung, listen to this mp3 from Center for Church Music rather than the organ version at Cyberhymnal.

What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?

The sins forbidden in the fourth commandment are, all omissions of the duties required,[1] all careless, negligent, and unprofitable performing of them, and being weary of them;[2] all profaning the day by idleness, and doing that which is in itself sinful;[3] and by all needless works, words, and thoughts, about our worldly employments and recreations.[4]

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