Comments on: Gas station business losing to reality http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/gas-station-business-losing-to-reality/ How to make, save and spend money in Japan. Tue, 21 May 2013 23:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Philip Brasor & Masako Tsubuku http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/gas-station-business-losing-to-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-132947 Philip Brasor & Masako Tsubuku Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:59:11 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=4348#comment-132947 Yes. It should be 200 million kiloliters, etc.

]]> By: Rod http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/gas-station-business-losing-to-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-132945 Rod Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:14:22 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=4348#comment-132945 As usual, an interesting article but I think you may have got your figures wrong regarding gasoline sales. Only 200,000 liters sold in 2011?

An article in the Journal of Economic Structures gives estimates of annual total gasoline consumption for passenger automobiles during 2000-2007 in Japan ranging between 38,034 megaliters in 2007 and 39,884 megaliters in 2003. See:
http://www.journalofeconomicstructures.com/content/pdf/2193-2409-1-9.pdf

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