Yup.  And you as an importer it is still getting worse, making the price
here higher and higher.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "VW Doka" <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 3:26 PM
Subject: The Metric Dollar - LVC

> So, I'm sitting here at my desk getting all depressed because I have to
> send
> a bunch of money over to the Fatherland to pay for Vanagon parts,
> vehicles,
> etc., when I realized that we now have a metric dollar:
>
> 1 mile = .62'ish kilometers
>
> 1 dollar = .63'ish euros
>
> Damn!  If we would've just stayed the course back in the '70s and switched
> to the metric system, the exchange rate would be 1 to 1...
>
> Unfortunately, just like nobody else in the world wants to measure
> something
> in 64ths of an inch, nobody wants any SAE dollars.  Unless they're
> visiting
> Disneyland.
>
> It's amazing how much more Vanagon parts are costing these days.  The
> price
> stays the same when I get a quote from my vendors in Germany, but by the
> time it arrives on our shores, it costs 5% or 10% more than last time.
>
> At this rate, we'll become a manufacturing economy again, except the
> companies will be owned by China and everything will get exported to some
> country who's money is worth a damn.
>
> Okay... I'm done ranting.  Now back to your regularly scheduled
> programming.
>
> Happy, happy, joy, joy,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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