LogFAQs > #962401358

Being sub-$1/L for so long (pretty much my entire youth, and before then as well), it was pretty standard for Canadians to quote gas prices in cents instead of dollars. Heck, I remember when $1+ prices started to become normal and most gas stations needed to upgrade their signs to accommodate the extra digit. The standard of writing it in cents has just persisted, though verbally, it's usually expressed more in terms of dollars (or, more commonly, "one-forty-four," which could really go either way).