How much is gas where you live

[goraman]

03/01/10 regular unleaded $3.00 per gallon!
It costs almost $70.00 to fill my wifes car.:brickwall: 93 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon

My wifes car at the gas station,It made it into a Roadmaster calender.
I love it,leather seats,big V8,seats 8 people,cruz controle nice new Kenwood stereo with built in blutooth,Ipod dock,digital HD radio,CD 22 watts RMS, 50 PEP x4 into Hertz speakers 95db.@1 watt. NO AMP NEEDED.and Audion speaker wire.So we can go to the drive in where the movie is broadcast over the FM car stereo and the big battery will last through a doubble feature.Amps are battery drainers.
We got 13 miles per gallon!
How much is gas where you live?

[REM]

Bearing in mind that we pay for our petrol in litres, we are currently paying around £4.50-£4.60 per gallon (nearly $7)!

It's not all bad though as Imperial gallons are bigger than US gallons (1 = 1.2) but you would still struggle to get too far for $70 @ 13 mpg here in the UK!

[goraman]

:no:$7.00 per gallon!!!!
There would be a public protest like you wouldn't belive.Work strikes ect...
Why so expencive?
My car is a Hyundai Accent.It gets good milage,I drive 16 miles a day round trip. My wife drives 3 miles a day.
She is a new driver with our new babey so I wanted her in a big tank with air bags.
We don't have to fill it often it holds 23 gallons.

[Spectral Morn]

:no:$7.00 per gallon!!!!
There would be a public protest like you wouldn't belive.Work strikes ect...
Why so expencive?
My car is a Hyundai Accent.It gets good milage,I drive 16 miles a day round trip. My wife drives 3 miles a day.
She is a new driver with our new babey so I wanted her in a big tank with air bags.
We don't have to fill it often it holds 23 gallons.

Sadly the people of the UK over the last 3 generations have been turned into sheep. Protest nope..... A few years ago a few brave souls tried a fuel strike, but it did not have wide spread support so eventually fell. They did win some concessions, but our government then turned round and shafted them, and the rest of us. It is our government who steel so much in tax (fuel duty)and make it cost so much, despite drops in wholesale oil costs we still pay to much.

Now the French, they have balls and protest about all sorts of issues, but the English naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa imho ;)


Regards D S D L

[Kris]

1.8 Rover 600 Automatic with 98k on the clock. I've had her up to an indicated 120mph (on the German Autobahn). Will cruise all day at 90, but is underpowered.

33mpg, costs £51 to fill up ($75)

Kris.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Sadly the people of the UK over the last 3 generations have been turned into sheep. Protest nope..... A few years ago a few brave souls tried a fuel strike, but it did not have wide spread support so eventually fell. They did win some concessions, but our government then turned round and shafted them, and the rest of us. It is our government who steel so much in tax (fuel duty)and make it cost so much, despite drops in wholesale oil costs we still pay to much.

Now the French, they have balls and protest about all sorts of issues, but the English naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa imho ;)


Regards D S D L

I completely agree, although as a nation I do think we like to complain ... The problem is no one knows what to complain about. People who complain about imigration that blame the people who come here to get the jobs... It's not thier fault they are smart enough to move to a country that pays more money for work is it, they are just being clever enough to go and find a job! People who complain the nhs is shit... The nhs is a wonderful thing, it's miss spent funding that causes the problem!
I was in the bank yesturday, they have a pair of tv's behind the counter that although on mute, show the news - they had coverage of the earth quake in chilli on there. Whilst waiting for the guy to put my cheque in my account I was staring at the devistation... The woman that wasn't serving next to the guy serving me said to me "there's another place we are going to have to send our money, I bet they wouldn't send us money if we had an earth quake, we need that money to fix our pot hole's, it makes me so mad it does!"
I mean where do you even start with a comment like that, I just said "the difference is thier houses fall into thier pot hole's"
the irony of course being this woman worked in a bank, the very cause of our financial problems ... ... Or is it the governments fault for not regulating them??? I have no idea!!!

As for petrol and it's high cost, well they have an excuse now, and it's an excuse that plucks at peoples moral fibre.... Green tax! The best excuse in the world for governments to get your money... If you question it then obviously you don't care about the polar bears, you basterd, have you not seen them, they are all White and fluffy, how could you not care about them etc etc etc

[Marco]

Hi Neil,


A few years ago a few brave souls tried a fuel strike...


I know - I remember being caught up in some of the horrendous tailbacks on motorways, as a result of some truck driving down the middle of the carriageway doing 30 M.P.H, holding people like me back trying to do their job and getting to see my clients... :rolleyes: ;)

I lost more money then as a result of cancelled appointments (and in some cases lost customers) than I was ever likely to have saved on reduced fuel costs as a result of the strike!

Yes I'm all for protests, when it's justified, but carried out in such a way that the only people who are inconvenienced (and indeed are having their livelihoods adversely affected as a result), are the targets of the protest. I dislike being a hapless victim of someone else's battle, even if I agree with it in principle. I feel the exact same way about bloody postal strikes!

I don't expect this to be a popular view, but that's how I feel :)

Marco.

P.S Jeff, when you mentioned "gas", I was thinking of something rather different from petrol (fuel or diesel), which is what we call it in the UK! :eyebrows:

[Spectral Morn]

I completely agree, although as a nation I do think we like to complain ... The problem is no one knows what to complain about. People who complain about imigration that blame the people who come here to get the jobs... It's not thier fault they are smart enough to move to a country that pays more money for work is it, they are just being clever enough to go and find a job! People who complain the nhs is shit... The nhs is a wonderful thing, it's miss spent funding that causes the problem!
I was in the bank yesturday, they have a pair of tv's behind the counter that although on mute, show the news - they had coverage of the earth quake in chilli on there. Whilst waiting for the guy to put my cheque in my account I was staring at the devistation... The woman that wasn't serving next to the guy serving me said to me "there's another place we are going to have to send our money, I bet they wouldn't send us money if we had an earth quake, we need that money to fix our pot hole's, it makes me so mad it does!"
I mean where do you even start with a comment like that, I just said "the difference is thier houses fall into thier pot hole's"
the irony of course being this woman worked in a bank, the very cause of our financial problems ... ... Or is it the governments fault for not regulating them??? I have no idea!!!

As for petrol and it's high cost, well they have an excuse now, and it's an excuse that plucks at peoples moral fibre.... Green tax! The best excuse in the world for governments to get your money... If you question it then obviously you don't care about the polar bears, you basterd, have you not seen them, they are all White and fluffy, how could you not care about them etc etc etc

Hi Hamish

I was tempted to mention the governments latest con, but as many sheep have been brainwashed into belief...I thought better of lighting the "climate lie" bomb here.


Regards D S D L

[Spectral Morn]

Hi Neil,



I know - I remember being caught up in some of the horrendous tailbacks on motorways, as a result of some truck driving down the middle of the carriageway doing 30 m.p.h, holding people like me back trying to do their job and getting to see my clients... :rolleyes: ;)

I lost more money then as a result of cancelled appointments (and in some cases lost customers) than I was ever likely to have saved on reduced fuel costs as a result of the strike!

Yes I'm all for protests, when it's justified, but carried out in such a way that the only people who are inconvenienced (and indeed are having their livelihoods adversely affected as a result), are the targets of the protest. I dislike being a hapless victim of someone else's battle, even if I agree with it in principle. I feel the exact same way about bloody postal strikes!

I don't expect this to be a popular view, but that's how I feel :)

Marco.

P.S Jeff, when you mentioned "gas", I was thinking of something rather different from petrol (fuel or diesel), which is what we call it in the UK! :eyebrows:

I am sympathetic to your view Marco, but if everyone said No to our so called government, then I think ultimately we would all benefit. Sadly very few take an interest in the governance of our country, so we end up with the shower of liars and thieves we currently have in power.

Its probably as well you don't live in France Marco as a few lorries here would be hundreds there.


Regards D S D L

[Marco]

Hi Hamish,


I completely agree, although as a nation I do think we like to complain...


No, as a nation we like to moan, not complain - and usually to the wrong people!

A valid example is in restaurants... How many of us will complain to the management or even refuse to pay for a sub-standard meal?

I do it all the time, where it's justified, and always get the right result, but how many of us simply say nothing and pay in full - or even worse than that - when asked by a waiter or waitress 'was everything to your liking?', replying: 'oh yes it was lovely', instead of telling the bloody truth!! :doh:

So instead of complaining to the people who could perhaps do something to improve matters, we say nothing, but then MOAN to our neighbour Jeanie next door about how crap the restaurant was (who can do f*ck all about it)!!

What's that muppetry about? :mental:

I could cite numerous other examples of this type of behaviour. No, the British as a nation in general are far too polite, don't tend to complain enough (although can moan for Britain, as it were!) and seem to suffer incompetence (and fools) all too gladly. Italians, for example, and indeed French and German people I know are, erm, 'rather different' in that respect ;)

We tell it as we see it! And yes, I consider myself as much more Italian than British :)

Marco.

[goraman]

Hi Neil,



I know - I remember being caught up in some of the horrendous tailbacks on motorways, as a result of some truck driving down the middle of the carriageway doing 30 m.p.h, holding people like me back trying to do their job and getting to see my clients... :rolleyes: ;)

I lost more money then as a result of cancelled appointments (and in some cases lost customers) than I was ever likely to have saved on reduced fuel costs as a result of the strike!

Yes I'm all for protests, when it's justified, but carried out in such a way that the only people who are inconvenienced (and indeed are having their livelihoods adversely affected as a result), are the targets of the protest. I dislike being a hapless victim of someone else's battle, even if I agree with it in principle. I feel the exact same way about bloody postal strikes!

I don't expect this to be a popular view, but that's how I feel :)

Marco.

P.S Jeff, when you mentioned "gas", I was thinking of something rather different from petrol (fuel or diesel), which is what we call it in the UK! :eyebrows:

We call it that here to,and latley with the stomic flu there has been no shortage of it.A little of my wifes spicey Pakistan cooking could really cause global warming.Not that I'm a beliver in that crap.

[Adara]

I know - I remember being caught up in some of the horrendous tailbacks on motorways, as a result of some truck driving down the middle of the carriageway doing 30 M.P.H, holding people like me back trying to do their job and getting to see my clients...
I lost more money then as a result of canceled appointments (and in some cases lost customers) than I was ever likely to have saved on reduced fuel costs as a result of the strike!

Why has "Adara" just repeated part of Marco's post above word-for-word?

[Steve Toy]

I lost more money then as a result of canceled appointments (and in some cases lost customers) than I was ever likely to have saved on reduced fuel costs as a result of the strike!

I find this hard to believe. The Fuel Tax Escalator was overturned as a direct result of the fuel blockades. It was to have added inflation plus 6% each year to the price of fuel. So to be really conservative in my estimates about this, if fuel had increased by 8% per annum to include inflation, a litre of diesel would currently cost £1.76 and that assumes the price of crude oil had remained at $20/barrel adjusted for inflation only.

[Haselsh1]

Sixty percent of the total cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Government in duty. That really kicks me in the nuts badly and to boot, it bloody hurts. I adore whisky...!

[Steve Toy]

We're going the way of the Scandinavians. If I wanted to live the way they do I'd f*cking move there and go ever so slightly mad like someone we know did...

[Marco]

I find this hard to believe. The Fuel Tax Escalator was overturned as a direct result of the fuel blockades. It was to have added inflation plus 6% each year to the price of fuel. So to be really conservative in my estimates about this, if fuel had increased by 8% per annum to include inflation, a litre of diesel would currently cost £1.76 and that assumes the price of crude oil had remained at $20/barrel adjusted for inflation only.

Yes, Steve, but remember I don't travel many miles these days and so thus use less fuel...

I can tell you that I lost a £25k corporate contract (I missed an important meeting) as I was stuck in miles of traffic because of some f*cking dweeb driving a truck down the middle of the carriageway on the motorway!

How long do you think that amount of money would take to recoup through my reduced fuel costs as result of the strike action, given the low mileage I do these days??

Marco.