Fuel prices

Prices are hovering right around 4 bucks a gallon for Premium around here, which is relevant because the Lexus and the Mini drink it. Regular ranges from around 3.65 to 3.80, but our only car that takes Regular is the stupid Highlander, but that doesn't get driven much, so it's not really relevant.
Does anybody on here actually pay less for gas than the 'Muricans? :dopey:
 
Boohoo. First world issues. We're paying nearly five bucks a gallon for unleaded out here. I've got a three hundred horsepower V6 to fill up this weekend, and my take home pay is less than $1,000 a month. :lol:

Signal52
I imagine they could put a lot of people to work if they really set out to create a good nation wide mass transit system. I have no idea how much that would cost though, and Americans don't like to pay taxes. :P
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You'd have to make people move closer to each other first. Unfortunately, with seventy or so years of suburbanization having taken hold, and the generally huge distances between rural towns, it's more difficult in America than it is elsewhere in the world, where we're packed like sardines into our cities.
 
Just filled up on $3.99 per gallon 87 octane. 92 is something like $4.20 and 110 is upwards of $7, plus you have to drive all the way out to the airport to get it. To my friend's disdain, since he's only supposed to use 110 in his modded Mustang.
 
My dad pays around 40 cents per gal in Saudi.

Correction: his company pays 40 cents per gallon. He just gets to enjoy the Hyundai they gave him.
 
Famine
Our local is 139.9p/litre. That's:
£1.40; €1.77; US$2.25 /litre
£5.30; €6.71; US$8.53 /gallon [US]
£6.36; €8.05; US$10.24 /gallon [Imp]
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That's close enough for me.

Over the past month, I've spent around £290 on fuel (both petrol and diesel), or around $467 / €361 at current exchange rates.

Which is impressive, considering I don't own a car. And that figure would be even higher if if press vehicles didn't already turn up fully-fueled...

niky
and my take home pay is less than $1,000 a month. :lol:
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More than mine!
 
It's old topic, but pretty much the only I found with search.

It has been almost a month since I last time filled the tank of my diesel car and this morning went to local gas station and pretty much got shocked by the prices :scared:

What in earth has happened in few weeks!
Well I pretty much know the reason for high prices due the covid and war, but still.

These are the prices here in Finland :

95 : 2,225 €/litre
98 : 2,349 €/litre
DI : 2,369 €/litre

95 : 2,454 $/litre
98 : 2,586 $/litre
DI : 2,608 $/litre

95 : 1,869 £/litre
98 : 1,973 £/litre
DI : 1,990 £/litre

Now I'm just wondering that is it this damn expensive elsewhere also? :boggled:

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I filled up on February 24th at 3.43 a gallon. Since then, the price here has jumped around 80 cents.
 
$5.19 a gallon for our crappy "premium" 91 octane. E0 93 octane was $5.99, which I try and fill up with when I can, however, I'm not paying $6 a gallon for gas.

Regular is between $4.29 and $4.49 depending on the station.
 
Filled up yesterday on my way to work and paid $4.54/gal for 87. All the other stations were $4.60+/gal.

I expect it'll be quite a bit higher on Monday.
 
There are people in the states actually telling us we should buy electric cars so we can avoid the gas prices. OK, I have two paid-for cars and a paid-for motorcycle. I can't get a useful electric car (i.e. Tesla, as there are no other useful ones) for less than $40,000 or so for a 3-year-old model 3. If I sold both of my cars and got about 8 grand for the pair (probably optimistic,) it would take me just under 10 years to break even with gas prices at today's level. Shorter if they keep going up, longer if they normalize soon, which they should. Eventually. And that 10-year break-even does not account for buying charging power, or replacing the battery pack when it reaches its end of life (probably more than the car would be worth at that point.)

Buy electric to save gas? I should spend 40 grand to "save" $3,500 or so a year? Seriously?!?!
 
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NMKH91
These are the prices here in Finland :

95 : 2,225 €/litre
98 : 2,349 €/litre
DI : 2,369 €/litre

95 : 2,454 $/litre
98 : 2,586 $/litre
DI : 2,608 $/litre

95 : 1,869 £/litre
98 : 1,973 £/litre
DI : 1,990 £/litre
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Today I drove past this same station. Prices have went up by 0,05€ from yesterday so 98 was about 9,91$ per gallon :boggled:
 
Gerarghini
Every single gas station has premium at or above $6 a gallon :scared:
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Your premium 93 seems to be similar level to our standard which is 95.

Our standard costs about £1.60 per litre
X 3.8 litres to a 6 pint US gallon =£6.

That's 6 POUNDS, not 6 DOLLARS
At $1.30 : £1, we're paying about $8 which is a third more than the US.

(Although I suspect tax differences probably account for most of the difference).
 
sirjim73
Your premium 93 seems to be similar level to our standard which is 95.

Our standard costs about £1.60 per litre
X 3.8 litres to a 6 pint US gallon =£6.

That's 6 POUNDS, not 6 DOLLARS
At $1.30 : £1, we're paying about $8 which is a third more than the US.

(Although I suspect tax differences probably account for most of the difference).
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What's hilarious is that I live in California, so we don't even have 93 :lol:
 
91 (87) - $3.09 p/litre ($7.99 USD a gallon)
95 (90) - $3.18 p/litre ($8.22 USD a gallon)
98 (93-94) - $3.32 p/litre ($8.58 USD a gallon)
Diesel - $2.15 p/itre ($5.56 USD a gallon)
 
sirjim73
(Although I suspect tax differences probably account for most of the difference).
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58p/litre is fuel duty, so your £1.60 would be £1.02. About 25p of it is for the ethanol content, which obviously isn't dependent on crude either. And then there's VAT on it.

Our government's pretty much making more than anyone else in the supply chain from the per litre price we pay.
 
wfooshee
If I sold both of my cars and got about 8 grand for the pair (probably optimistic,) it would take me just under 10 years to break even with gas prices at today's level.
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I think you're in the minority. It seems that people like to buy new cars every 5-10 years, even though some shouldn't be, but that's another story.
 
Gerarghini
What's hilarious is that I live in California, so we don't even have 93 :lol:
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Ugh, don't remind me. :guilty:

I drive maybe 100 miles a month so I'm not super concerned about fuel prices. However, its obvious that high transportation costs will make everything more expensive, so that isn't fun.
 
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GilesGuthrie
Looks like BMW dials, so I'm guessing E60 M5?
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Ha, that would explain it!

Sadly, no though, I managed to buy an even thirstier one, that's more prone to failure, whilst at the same time being slower and not sounding quite as nice.

It's an E90 320si. That's the one with the engine made from glass and fine china that they used to homologate the touring car.
 
I'm currently daily driving a Sentra company lease car and I can't really complain much as the car is getting 45-50mpg with my commute. Costs me $40 to fill up every couple weeks.
 

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Fuel prices started to rise... I don't remember, in December maybe, but they really jumped from 1.65 to 1.94 Euros for a liter of 95-th petrol since the war started.
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Right now they dropped a bit to 1.89...

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