Fuel Prices: I understand fuel costs in the US are a political hot potato!! Here in the UK here is what we pay, at a supermarket usually the cheapest!! Petrol, £1.37 per litre = $8.32...

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

I understand fuel costs in the US are a political hot potato!!
Here in the UK here is what we pay, at a supermarket usually the cheapest!! Petrol, £1.37 per litre = $8.32 US gallon
Diesel, £1.41 per litre = $8.56 US gallon

Motorway: Petrol, £1.53 per litre = $9.30 US gallon
Diesel, £1.57 per liter = $9.54 US gallon
These prices allow for US gallon = 0.833 UK gallon and:
£1 = $1.60 dollars

Kit Lens

John,
That's about double the price of what gas is in the USA and our folks are all screaming that it's the end of the world.
Maybe if we didn't drive SUV's the size of a small apartment we could actually save ourselves some money.

Carlmk Loc: Naples, FL & Boston, MA

Of course, most of the cost of the fuel/petrol are the taxes on it. Most governments don't think we pay enough taxes.

These are the hidden taxes that really hit the middle classes not the token "fairness" taxes on the "rich". Those debates are to distract you. Calculate what you spent on fuel(include heating fuel) four years ago and compare it what you spent this year!

Jolly Roger Loc: Dorset. UK

In Sierra Leone petrol and Diesel are priced the same. Approx. US$1 per litre or us$3.78 per US Gallon.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Your public transportation is better than the USA and you drive less than Americans. Not that this is an excuse, but I believe if the US had better public transportation we would drive less and save petrol and as someone pointed out our SUV's add up to some of the fuel consumption. The low prices of fuel in the past and the availability of reasonably priced vehicles prompted people out of cities and towns into the rural suburbs which caused the dynamics of our economic system to depend on private transportation to a greater extent than it did in Europe, but it did come at a price and that is hitting us now in the form of fuel dependency, pollution and our ties to the oil producing nations.

ted45 Loc: Delaware

Kit Lens wrote:

John,
That's about double the price of what gas is in the USA and our folks are all screaming that it's the end of the world.
Maybe if we didn't drive SUV's the size of a small apartment we could actually save ourselves some money.

Unless my eyesight is completely shot, isn't that a bus and a camper in the bottom picture? From what I can tell they drive the same types of cars that we do. Our lack of safe public transportation makes a car more of a need than a want.

GAClowers Loc: Tacoma, Washington

johneccles wrote:

I understand fuel costs in the US are a political hot potato!!
Here in the UK here is what we pay, at a supermarket usually the cheapest!! Petrol, £1.37 per litre = $8.32 US gallon
Diesel, £1.41 per litre = $8.56 US gallon

Motorway: Petrol, £1.53 per litre = $9.30 US gallon
Diesel, £1.57 per liter = $9.54 US gallon
These prices allow for US gallon = 0.833 UK gallon and:
£1 = $1.60 dollars

The biggest part of your fuel cost is taxes. You have to support your government provided health care somehow.

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

Quite right.Our huge fuel prices are through taxes as is a bottle of whisky but our NHS is free and that's how most of us like it.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Wish we had an NHS all we have are crooked politicians scaring the public into thinking that is socialism which everyone attributes to communism.

viscountdriver wrote:

Quite right.Our huge fuel prices are through taxes as is a bottle of whisky but our NHS is free and that's how most of us like it.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Kit Lens wrote:

John,
That's about double the price of what gas is in the USA and our folks are all screaming that it's the end of the world.
Maybe if we didn't drive SUV's the size of a small apartment we could actually save ourselves some money.

:thumbup: :thumbup:

Croce Loc: Earth

Kit Lens wrote:

John,
That's about double the price of what gas is in the USA and our folks are all screaming that it's the end of the world.
Maybe if we didn't drive SUV's the size of a small apartment we could actually save ourselves some money.

Kit Lens, this is not meant to be sarcastic but informative.

Are you or have you ever been on any sort of public assistance aside from Unemployment Ins. which is not public assist but insurance you paid for.

Croce Loc: Earth

viscountdriver wrote:

Quite right.Our huge fuel prices are through taxes as is a bottle of whisky but our NHS is free and that's how most of us like it.

NOTHING is Free. If you do not think you pay for your "free" healthcare, you are not in the UK, you are in La la land.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

As a sales rep in Texas, it was virtually impossible to visit 2 clients on the same day due to distances. Based out of New Mexico, traveling just from Santa Fe to Las Cruces, NM was nearly 300 miles EACH WAY! It was the price of business. I champion high speed rail, but it is cost prohibitive; don't know of any state that can afford to build them anymore.

A safer hedge is that Sheldon will need to get his time-machine up and running again!

Kit Lens

Croce wrote:

Kit Lens wrote:

John,
That's about double the price of what gas is in the USA and our folks are all screaming that it's the end of the world.
Maybe if we didn't drive SUV's the size of a small apartment we could actually save ourselves some money.

Kit Lens, this is not meant to be sarcastic but informative.

Are you or have you ever been on any sort of public assistance aside from Unemployment Ins. which is not public assist but insurance you paid for.

Why would you even ask that if this posting is about the price of gasoline.
Croce, Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

Croce Loc: Earth

Kit Lens wrote:

quote=Croce quote=Kit Lens John, br That's abou... (show quote)

I'd be happy to answer your question if you answer mine. I asked first. Why are you reluctant to answer Kit?