Fuel for thought
"My journey from Greenlane Auckland to Dargaville on Tuesday 25th September revealed huge discrepancy in petrol prices across the 10 petrol stations I photographed," writes Rex Nathan. "Caltex Dargaville at $2.34 is only four cents cheaper than BP Greenlane which is $2.38. How can that be when Auckland residents are meant to be paying 11.5 cents more than the rest of the country? Gull Wellsford is the cheapest of all at $2.13. Interesting that Mobil and Caltex Wellsford are cheaper than other towns. Could it be as a result of the Gull effect?"
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In breaking news, lexical purists may be disgusted to learn that "ew" is now a legit word having made it into the Scrabble dictionary. Now 300 new words have been included in the official Scrabble dictionary, including "Qapik", which is a unit of currency in Azerbaijan.