Just filled up my gas tanks. Euro 1.769 per liter. That's $ 10.03 per gallon. 14 mpg is getting a bit insane these days.... That's 72 cents per mile on fuel alone (and to think that I did more than 10,000 miles in my Dino last year) sigh.....
Thanks for the reality check, Hans. We're a bunch of wussies here in the USA, complaining about $4/gal gas for our gashog daily-driver SUV's. Absolutely beautiful car you have...worth ten bucks a gallon to drive, IMO.
Hans, you seriously should look for another filling station. I pay 1.590 Euro per liter for 98RON and 1.535 for 95RON.
We pay almost the same price for gasoline, they simply have more taxes. And considering 'other' expenses the US pays to maintain the world oil supply I don't think we're wusses
I was curious last week when I heard the news that the "Republicans" had killed the windfall profits tax on the oil companies in a party line vote. I don't understand what the intention of the tax was. It seems to me that if you increase the tax on something the price will go up. Is that what they want to do? I am not a smoker but I think the smokers hate it when they raise the taxes on cigarettes, right? What I think they need is a tax that prevents the price of gas (energy in general) from going down. That will give car companies and businesses in the alternative fuel industries confidence that if they invest in something based upon the high cost of energy they won't go bankrupt because the market for oil crashes. It also gives oil companies an incentive to keep prices low because as the price ratchets up (never down) it will inevitably lower demand. Say the price of gas goes up to $5 per gallon then the bottom drops out of the market so gas would be back down to $3 per gallon the tax would immediately kick in at $2 per gallon to keep the total price at $5 per gallon. If gas then goes up to $4 the tax would be reduced to keep the total price at $5 per gallon. If the price goes to $6 per gallon no tax will be collected until it goes below $6. If it went back down to $3 again then the tax would be $3 per gallon to keep the total price at $6 per gallon. How much do you hate that idea?
Maintain world supplies? ...."other" expenses to make sure we hog it all no matter what the consequences. Shamile Freeze...Miami Vice !
+2 I wondered what the prices were over there now that it's skyrocketed here. Is the price before taxes even less than what we pay before taxes given the strong euro relative to the dollar? I was glad I had a diesel when I was in France in 2001. Is the diesel price related to gasoline prices the same or is diesel closer or more like here? Jeff
It's not the 'oil companies' but rather speculators who drive up the cost per barrel.. Of course anyone with a pension,IRA..etc is probably a part of this..
Try living in the UK - Given our fuel strikes on top of the ongoing problems, if you could find petrol over the weekend it was getting up to £2 a litre, so that's Euro 2.52 per litre or $14.8 for a US gallon! Diesel usually goes for a bit more, say add 5-10%
petrol topped $2 a litre here last week and no sign of it lowering, still way cheaper than in the UK but wages are half here!
I honestly haven't noticed any difference in the number of cars on the road commuting to and from work, still as busy as ever. There was a report in today's paper that the number of people not paying after filling up has increased in the last few weeks. A silly move, because with the registration in hand the filling station owner is now allowed to get the address of the thief. Unless he uses a stolen registration ofcourse..
I'm not sure, I've got a Subaru in my plane, so I fly on mogas. Last time I checked, Avgas was around $15 per gallon. Hans
Up here behind the redwood curtain, we are enjoying $4.99/gal for 91 octane. Seems like we lead the usa in gas prices, (or nearly so). I was choking filling up my toyota $70.00 in the work truck. Glad i got rid of the 3/4 ton 454 chevy - 8 mpg on a good day. chris
Paid $1.45 per litre (the Dom Perignon, high octane blend...) with the last fill up. I don't even want to think what the price per gallon would work out to be and here in Canada we are a net exporter of petrouleum according to news reports. Doesn't make too much sense to me but if you want to play, you gotta pay. I'm not the type of guy who sits in the tavern drinking overpriced, watered-down beverages like many of my business associates, and this is how I rationalize the fuel costs cruising in my Ferrari. Works for me Cheers-Colin Firth-Ontario Canada
The solution is to own a power boat! Our 53 ft Hatteras holds 700 gal of diesel and gets about about 1 mile per gallon at 10 knots, about 1/4 mile per gallon at 18 knots. At US 5.00 a gallon a fillup costs...well, you do the math. This, of course, doesn't make car gas any cheaper but it makes it where you feel like you are getting a heck of a bargain to go 15 or 20 miles on just one gallon of gas! UNBELIEVABLE - WHAT A DEAL!!!!
Just got back from a 5000 mile vacation trip to Holland, France Italy Belgium etc. On average paid 1.5 euro per liter or about $8.80 a gallon. Fortunately the car was a Hyundia I30 Turbo diesel of 1.6 liter displacement. Economical, yet surprisingly good performance especially passing torque and road-holding. That is why there are so many diesel powered cars in Europe. But for us Ferrari types high fuel prices means shorter pleasure drives and here in Socal in the Malibu/Mulholland area, that works out OK. Martin
