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RE: [RC] Europe - cost of gas - David LeBlanc

It’s about 29 lb - ~2.2 lb/kg. Gas works out to about $6.63/gallon there. Oddly enough, hay is about the same, maybe a little cheaper than what we pay, figuring 3 of their bales is about one of ours, so that’s 6 euros/US bale, works out to around $8/US bale, which is a lot cheaper than it is here in the NW.

 

But to put things in perspective, we often travel 300 miles (500 km), but range as far as 600 miles (1000 km).

 

Went through engineering school – it’s a lot of fun trying to convert Newton-meters to ft-lb, and you’ve never lived until you start trying to work with power. Some of it is awful enough that it pays to first convert everything to metric, figure it out, and then convert back for the answer.

 

From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Smith, Dave
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Leonard.Liesens@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] Europe - cost of gas

 

So Leonard, not to sound too parochial, but how many U.S. pounds are 13 Kgs? (I actually tried to learn the metric system once, but since no one else was using it,  I gave up).  Also if gas costs 1.3 euros per liter, and diesel 1 Euro per liter, how does that translate to the cost of a US gallon?  Finally, do you find that most European horse owners are middle income, or is horse ownership more an upper income activity?  Just curious.  --Dave

 


From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leonard.Liesens@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 8:41 AM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] Europe - cost of gas

 

Hi,

Your discussion about the cost of gas or diesel is funny. In Europe (some variations from country to country), one liter of gas costs 1.3 euros while one liter of diesel costs 1 euro.  change between euro and dollar : one euro costs 1.35 US$

 

We try to avoid too long trips most of the time, but if we draw a circle of 500Kms around Paris, you can get almost one FEI ride every week-end. From belgium it is a bit longer as we have to head toward France (or eventually Germany or Holland). France is most of the time our favorite choice as we get there the best rides with the highest number of participants (60 to sometimes 150 starters).

 

A bale of meadow hay costs around 2 euros for 13Kgs. Stabling a horse in an equestrian center costs 200 euros/month, but it can be 400 euros in Brussels.

 

Hope this helps

 

Leonard, Belgium

 

PS : Yes Truman, we don't have BIG Sundowner but some have 4 horses trailers. Most of endurance riders have a 2 horses trailer. Now in showjumping this is another business, they do have huge lorries with living quarters, bigger than your horse trailers. But their horses are more valuable and price money are different also.

 


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[RC] Europe - cost of gas, Leonard.Liesens
RE: [RC] Europe - cost of gas, Smith, Dave