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Article: SUMMER SWINDLES IN FULL SWING.(Daybreak)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2000
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I was going to complain about the gas prices, but I just got back from southern Norway, where it cost me 400 crowns for a half-tank of gas in my father-in-law's 1987 Toyota.
That works out to about $47 for a half-tank of gas. There is a reason you don't see too many sport utility vehicles in some countries.
The mail has piled up in the past several days.
I ignored the anonymous nasty letters from people wanting to gladiate over the designation of percentages and ``greater than's. . . .''
Betty and Gerhardt Hillmer kindly sent along the crude marketing ploy they recently received from Peppertree Resorts of the Wisconsin Dells area. ...