OT - no more pennies in Canada

[puckhead]

Budget 2012: Tories kill the penny, cut federal spending for CBC | News | National Post

so everything will of course be rounded up to the nearest dollar

 

[jstewismybastardson]

cuts at the CBC ... sayonara HNIC!

 

[awaz]

woo! kill the penny!

follow suit america!

 

[mooger_35]

It cost more to make than it's worth... solid budgeting

 

[juliansteed]

Oh my God! They killed Penny!

Those bastards!

 

[dash]

It cost more to make than it's worth... solid budgeting

1.6 cents to make a penny...Good move.

 

[puckhead]

1.6 cents to make a penny...Good move.

I can only assume that's some sort of metric conversion issue

 

[dash]

I can only assume that's some sort of metric conversion issue

lol...actually no, I remember reading that somewhere (too lazy to find the article) that it does actually cost approximately 1.6 cents to make a penny.

 

[mooger_35]

It actually says it in the article that Puck posted.

"costs more than a penny-and-a-half to make"

 

[puckhead]

lol...actually no, I remember reading that somewhere (too lazy to find the article) that it does actually cost approximately 1.6 cents to make a penny.

my comment was just a lame mile/km joke, fwiw.

 

[dash]

my comment was just a lame mile/km joke, fwiw.

D'oh, my bad...I should have clued in.

 

[TexasMan]

A damn shame..

 

[BOSSMANPC]

So no more $1.99, $2.99, $3.99...... sales?

 

[Erdber]

I would add my 2 cents to this thread but I'm saving pennies now

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Couldn't they have foreseen this a few years ago when copper prices soared and switched to a cheaper material?

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]