Ready for the math?
Here in White Rock, BC, upper-middle-class suburbia (of which I am not
), home of the most SUV drivers in any BC wester Canadian city who slow down to 2 miles an hour for speed bumps (what good is an SUV if you're not goin' up a mountain in it, I say), gas runs at $0.86 CDN per litre. There are 3.68 US gallons per litre, so thats $3.27 CDN per gallon, converted over using today's Bank of Canada exchange rate, that means gas up here is sitting at a wopping $ 2.35 per gallon.
Glad I drive my little Sunfire.