$5 per US gallon would be 98p (GBP) per litre. I don't think fuel has been that cheap here in the last 10 years.
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According to the RAC it was earlier than 2010. But then I don't get a lifetime of medical debt if I get injured so at least at have that going for us. Currently.
I think I ended up on the same chart - link for future people: https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
I am one of the future people and appreciate the kink
Not that kind of pump.
I ran a pump and dump scheme with your mother last night, Trebek.
Never really bothered to do the conversions but now I've just realised how cheap gasoline was in the US. The cheapest I remember seeing pump prices in the uk was in late 90s where it was £0.65/L, which would make it around £2.46/gallon and therefore $4.15/gallon given the apparent exchange rate at the time.
In the late 90s (or maybe 2000) in the US Midwest, I remember paying $0.79 a gallon, or $0.21/L. With the exchange rate then, it works out to £0.13/L. So yeah, it was cheap. I filled my 15 gallon tank for the cost of 2 hours at my just above minimum wage job.
FWIW, I learned to drive when it was ~$0.95/gal, and lived in the UK ~'05, so I feel keenly that a fairer comparison might be each region's % of prol take-home avg that's leeched by fuel costs. Is there an acronym for that?
Let's say that these two nations' Unit Price and MPG/KPL avgs are:
- US: $4.32/g | 26 mpg
- UK: £1.59/L | 36 kpl
Also, the nat'l avgs of "median wage worker" incomes are:
- US: $50,153 (£37,276.47)
- UK: £32,236 ($43,369.83)
The fuel cost/yr as % of gross earnings, and minutes-of-work per fill unit would look like:
- US: 2.12% | 7.4 mins/g (1.95/L) up 28% since 2019
- UK: 1.01% | 4.5 mins/L (17.2/g) down 7% since 2019 (income rose 31%)
Now, for some of us, the slice off the year's top is image enough, but that "minutes of work per gallon/liter* punches low. 🤌🏼
If you find yourself with a surplus of joy and need it gone, run your own numbers for minutes per gallon/liter * (2*commute fuel usage) = minutes paid to earn the rest. 😅
I recently bought petrol at $1.49AUD/L, which is roughly 75p and easily the cheapest I’ve bought it since the 90s.
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Diesel here is 2€40 a litre.
Cheers!
Edit: France
How many gallons is a euro, in Fahrenheit?
The proper unit is Eagle talons per rifle caliber
Is this the tsi awd talon or are we going cheap?
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Just paid $2.03/L CAD here.
No car master race reporting in. One big upside with being broke AF is laughing at the economy.
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So roughly 9.10€ per gallon. ~$10.60
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REGULAR - 5^29^
PREMIUM - 5^73^
EPSTEIN - 6^08^
Damn. They got them prices represented with exponents now. Those must be the Europe prices. /s
Me paying 9.15 USD per gallon, just because I live in Europe
I would be paying by the Liter in Europe and get the discount
9.15 USD per Liter seems unreasonable. That is roughly 461 cups per camel.
Source:
- 1 US Cup is 0.236588L
- 1 Camel costs roughly 1kUSD (the cheap work camels)
1 camel is one kilodollar? I'm so confused! /s
I paid $5.77 in West Virginia yesterday
With current exchange rates, that's 1.09 € per litre. In Germany we pay 1.90 € per litre ( for the cheap stuff). So in Germany it is ~9.60$ per gallon.
I'm not being shitty, but a real question. Do you have your own oil wells? We not only have our own oil, but we frack the shit out of our earth.
Doesn’t matter if you supply your own oil, it’s traded on world markets that determines the price.
The gas pricing map of the United States would contradict that.
Tell me you don’t understand oil markets without saying it.
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Germany doesn't have its own oil wells, that's one of the reasons it invaded the USSR in WW2: to get to the oil wells in Chechnya.
But the real reason is economic redistribution. Germany has a 19% value added tax and a €0.65/L excise tax, without which that €1.90/L gasoline comes out to €1.05 per litre - cheaper than in West Virginia.
All those taxes are invested by the government into other stuff, much of which makes life cheaper for Germans. People don't pay out their asses for the German healthcare system because they already paid when buying gasoline. And the same goes for public transit and urban infrastructure and everything else.
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TBF you tax the crap out of your gas.
That is a choice.
And it is not enough. To even begin to account for the externalized damages due to the total emissions car based transport, taxes need to be way higher still.
Of course americans - land of the externalized costs - never gave a shit about that, and never will.
y'all are paying more than Canadians. last night it was $1.55/L
damn you're winning hard
also, fuel in Canada should still be more expensive.
£1.92 a litre for diesel at my local petrol station the last time I went.
A quick currency check says that's 3.54 Canadian dollars.
All because an orange child rapist is trying to distract everyone from all those decades of raping little girls.
$2.45/L in the real parts of Canada.
what parts are those?
Hongcouver.
There are two things Americans love the most: boasting how much democracy and freedom they have, and waiting for some misterious "them" to do something.
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It was down to $3.89 when I filled up yesterday.
it was at a club store gas station, so I'm not sure how much they are actively suppressing the price to keep people spending in the store. Elsewhere I was seeing from around 4.29 to 4.50 on Saturday in PA.
I can hear it in his voice
my owning an electric car and charging said car off my solar panels
I don’t really know whether that’s bad or good on account of gallon being a measurement unit for hats.
Wrong, because you wouldn't start a revolution. But hey, yo are no communists or anarchists right? Why fight when you can complain and pay 5 per gallon.
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