Gas Prices Again

[Iroquois]

Sorry to beat a dead horse and bring up an old topic.

Seeing oil is hitting record highs again, I was just wondering what everyone's paying for gas these days.

I was running on fumes yesterday so I had to fill up so I could get to school. No reliable public transit out this end of the city.  ::)
I paid 85.2 cents a liter. I checked today and it's the same. I worked that out to be about $2.50/gallon US. My math could be wrong but that figure seems about right.

I drive a Mazda 626 hatchback which costs about $40 to fill. (in our funny money) I can go about 500-800km on that. I can't imagine what people driving SUVs and minivans pay. Coincidently I've noticed that people seem to be driving faster than ever and there are a lot more big SUVs like Hummers and Navigators on the road. You know how thoes monstrocities go through the liquid gold (what I've been calling gas lately).

[Felix/FFDS]

Regular-unleaded (83 octane) gas is hovering between USD1,90 and USD1,99 where I live, but it can get a lot more expensive near the tourist/hotel areas around Disney World and Universal ...  I've seen as much as USD 0,25 more in those areas.

[JBaymore]

Here in southern New Hampshire the regular unleaded is about $1.97 per US Gallon as of today.

And I just heard on the radio news that in New England... the registration of new SUV's was up 17% in the first quarter of 2004.  My bet is most of those are used to drive in normal driving conditions on basically flat roads.

Duh!


best,

..................john

[RichieB16]

Around here it has been about $2.10 for regular gasoline (87 octane).  The Plus gas costs about $2.20 (89 octane) and the premium is going for $2.30 (92 octane).  

It's been costing me over $30 to fill my little Camaro's gas tank and I don't even get that good of mileage.  I get about 18 miles per gallon with my V6 engine.  I'm glad my other car isn't running well enough to drive.  It gets about 10 miles to the gallon and needs 92 octane gas.

[Jared]

[quote]Around here it has been about $2.10 for regular gasoline (87 octane).

[Saitek]

I think here it has stayed the same (The UK).... but when it costs, in American money, $100 for a full tank (in a MPV) and about $85 in an ordinary car so it should! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(>:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(>:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( IT MAKES ME MAD!!!!!!!!!!

Ben

[Hagar]

A large percentage of UK oil prices is tax so this really doesn't help much. I paid 82.5 pence per litre for Premium unleaded on Saturday. At today's exchange rate this works out at $6.74 US per Imperial Gallon (or $5.59 US per US Gallon).

I think in gallons & miles & could never get used to litres (or kilometres) so unless I'm going on a long trip I usually get

[Saitek]

Hi Doug!

If you can't keep track then use this. I just did a search and it came up. Add it to favourites!

http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_g.htm

Some approx:

1 gallon (UK) is 4.5 litres - 2 gallons for 9 litres

1 gallon (US) is 3.8 litres - 5 gallons for 19 litres

1 litre is 0.26 US gallons  - 4 litres - just over 1 US gallon

1 gallon(UK) is 1.2 gallons(US) which is the same as

- 5 gallons(UK) for 6 gallons (US)

[Hagar]

Hi Ben. Thanks but that just makes things worse. I've been trying to get my head round this lot for over 20 years (maybe 30) & all those facts & figures make my head spin.

I was taught the Imperial System at school & stll think Imperial. I can visualise pounds, gallons, miles, feet - even rods, poles & perches but I haven't the faintest idea what a kilometre looks like. Kilometres per litre means nothing to me. If it's miles per gallon I know exactly what you're talking about. I can't see me changing my ways now.

PS. If you want a converter for almost anything you can think of try this. http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~shane007/maths/

[Saitek]

Thought I may make things worse....
Anyway, slight deviation from subject....

Who votes to sack the guys in parliament that are making us pay out roughly

[ATI_7500]

The prices here seem to be constanly between 1.10

[Craig.]

Ben, no government will drop the price to a reasonable level.
Doug, its thanks to you old people we dont have to work out kilometers over miles , i am used to the old system of lbs, miles gallons, and it has come in handy more times than knowing the metric system

[ozzy72]

Well in Hungary it works out to about 60 pence a litre. Which is madness when you consider wages are about 1/12th of what they are in Britain.
Needless to say I nip over the border to Croatia to fill the tank up as its only about 20p a litre there

Mark

[Iroquois]

A large percentage of UK oil prices is tax so this really doesn't help much. I paid 82.5 pence per litre for Premium unleaded on Saturday. At today's exchange rate this works out at $6.74 US per Imperial Gallon (or $5.59 US per US Gallon).

I'm glad you pointed that out Hagar. The way it works in Canada is for ever dollar in the price of oil, that equals a penny in the price of gas. Oil is around $53 right now which translates to $0.53/liter. Of course its at 85 cents so the rest of that's a fuel tax and the GST. The GST on gas prices is actually illegal becaust its calculated on the price of gas with the fuel tax already there. That makes it a tax on a tax. Of course the government doesn't seem to mind.

[Saitek]

Well in Hungary it works out to about 60 pence a litre. Which is madness when you consider wages are about 1/12th of what they are in Britain.
Needless to say I nip over the border to Croatia to fill the tank up as its only about 20p a litre there

Mark

Hey, that's good! Can u send us a tanker full, Inverness is on the se.
And Craig - I'm only 17 - but it's me who seems to have the job of filling the car at the gas station... and I'm interested in figures/money/politics etc so I tend to be rather chatty on the subject.  ;D