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08/08/2005 09:44:26 PM · #26 |
$2.29 per gallon in Pittsburgh...the highest it's ever been for regular.
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08/08/2005 09:51:32 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Konador:
Definately not cheaper! I've seen it around 95 96 in some places. Won't be long before it's £1! |
If it does our old 4x4 is going! It would cost me £18 to travel 18 miles! I only use it now for local trips and it still costs me over £45 to fill it up.
We're travelling down to London on Wednesday so I think I'll fill the other car up here before we leave then drive very economically - well perhaps I'll keep it below 90mph!!!
:)
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08/08/2005 09:55:31 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Riponlady:
My husband has just worked out that we pay about $6 a gallon - not bad maths for 2am!
Pauline |
That would depend on which gallon you use, American or Imperial. American gallon is ~3.79 litres.
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08/08/2005 10:01:48 PM · #29 |
Time to start riding the motorcycle more often
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08/08/2005 10:02:42 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
Here in PA/Oh border...yesterday $2.28. Today $2.35 (regular self serve)
Hmm...anyone got a replacement for my minivan that gets better mileage?? 18.5 is not going to cut it...I have been watching the fill ups grow in price, over $40 last week...and now it is 12 cents a gallon more than that! |
Check out the Toyota Prius, seats 5 with plenty of cargo room and 60 MPG city/51 MPG highway.
If you really need the extra cargo space, check out the Toyota Highlander hybrid. It gets 33 MPG city/28 MPG highway... not bad for an SUV.
-Terry
-Terry
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08/08/2005 10:16:00 PM · #31 |
heh. Here in Taiwan, I think it's around 98 NT per liter. That is around $3 US/L, around 12 bucks a gallon. Grow up Yanks :) America has really cheap fuel prices.
Solution = Blame Bush? I don't think so. Blame your own reliance on gas hog vehicles. America uses more fuel than anyone else in the world. As the finite supply goes down and the demand continues to go up, the price will rise. First rule of economics. Even Bush can't change that.
Solution = buy a scooter (50cc gets 100+ mpg) to use for 8-10 months a year and a bicycle. Only use the car when really necessary.
You guys are also saving money big time on your auto insurance costs.
It's funny the things people in America complain about when in many parts of the world people pay more for a month of parking their car than the average american pays in a year for auto insurance. |
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08/08/2005 10:23:10 PM · #32 |
Prices in Brazil are sky high.
Doing the math:
U$ 1.00 = R$ 2.65 (2.65 reais, brazilian money)
1 gallon = +- 4 liters
1 liter = R$ 2.23
4 liters = R$ 8.92
So 4 liters, or 1 gallon R$ 8.92 = U$ 3.36 (in Brazil)
For the same amount of fuel - 1 gallon = U$ 2.74 = R$ 7.26 (in the US)
It's a R$ 1.66 difference, which equals to U$ 0.62
What do you think of paying that much for gas, when your country produces over 90% of the fuel it consumes!? You guys get almost a full liter more (0.7L or 700mL).
Considering a medium car in brazil (1.8 or 2.0 liter engine), burning 12-13km a litter (32.5 Miles per gallon), gas price is waaaaaaaaaaay out of this world! That's why the popular models in brazil run 1.0 engines, now with a somewhat newly introduced technology called "flex power". The engine runs both gasoline and alcohol (made out of sugar kane). 1 liter of alcohol goes for R$ 1.50 roughly. That equals to 56 cents of a dollar! Burns a little more (less MPG, or KPL), but it gives a couple more HP to engines, and it's quite clean smoke out of the muffler!
The best gas sold in brazil is called "podium", and it's octane thingie is lower than unlead plus!
Just to add to the scenario, a government company called Petrobras (the company that produces the gas, and distributes it to shell, texaco and others) sponsors the Williams F1 team, providing them the fuel, of much higher quality than what's sold on our gas stations!
Some ppl (like a friend of mine, who works on a refinery) have access to this sort of fuel. He has a 97 chevrolet omega, running a 4.1 6cc inline engine (quite a powerfull engine, with 210hp, 72liter gas tank or 18 gallons, 4.5 km per liter, or 28.8 MPG). He pays, nothing less than R$ 4.20sumthing for a liter.
That's like U$ 6.34 for a gallon! R$ 302 sumthing for a full tank of gas, or, IMPRESSIVE, U$ 115.00 +-.
Talk about expensive! I just can't get it.
If the country needed to import most of it! But no .... we produce 90% or more of our fuel!
Thank god I only take the bus. Can't afford a car right now, or at least it's "food". |
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08/08/2005 10:26:19 PM · #33 |
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08/08/2005 10:30:24 PM · #34 |
| America may be cheaper than you, but for a beginning college student whatever the price is it accounts for double. :-P |
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08/08/2005 10:34:25 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
If you really need the extra cargo space, check out the Toyota Highlander hybrid. It gets 33 MPG city/28 MPG highway... not bad for an SUV.
-Terry
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Nice looking SUV. But, man its expensive. Real expensive.
The one I looked at was 40K. And thats before the dealer does their typical add on rip off crapola. |
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08/08/2005 10:50:36 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by briantammy:
...prices this high? Just wondering if this is what everyone else is paying. |
You're currently 25 cents cheaper per gallon than up here in NorCal. Everytime I go down there I wish I could stock up because it's usually closer to 50 cents cheaper per gallon. |
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08/08/2005 10:54:59 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Check out the Toyota Prius, seats 5 with plenty of cargo room and 60 MPG city/51 MPG highway. |
Just 60? How 'bout 110 mpg? :)
These guys did this test this weekend just down the road from where we live... in fact, I wound up following them the other afternoon. Pretty tempting to get one of those babies! |
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08/08/2005 11:11:45 PM · #38 |
here in Sydney it is about 1.199 aus dollars per liter
that works out to US$4.54 per gallon after the exchange rate
and my bill for petrol last tax year was AU$10,575.96 for our 2 cars with most of that being my work van and I don't do a lot of miles in it
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08/08/2005 11:13:00 PM · #39 |
| About $8.00 per gallon here in Japan |
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08/08/2005 11:26:48 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by eschelar:
heh. Here in Taiwan, I think it's around 98 NT per liter. That is around $3 US/L, around 12 bucks a gallon. Grow up Yanks :) America has really cheap fuel prices.
Solution = Blame Bush? I don't think so. Blame your own reliance on gas hog vehicles. America uses more fuel than anyone else in the world. As the finite supply goes down and the demand continues to go up, the price will rise. First rule of economics. Even Bush can't change that.
Solution = buy a scooter (50cc gets 100+ mpg) to use for 8-10 months a year and a bicycle. Only use the car when really necessary.
You guys are also saving money big time on your auto insurance costs.
It's funny the things people in America complain about when in many parts of the world people pay more for a month of parking their car than the average american pays in a year for auto insurance. |
Yes the US pays less on some things but pay a lot on other things, what the US pays for insurance on Health, house, Cars etc in 1 month.. in places like Ecuador its like 1-2 yrs!.. also everything thats a "healthy" food like veggies and fruits are completely over priced.. I just got back from Ecuador and really noticed how the U.S. raises prices on the necessities in life
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08/08/2005 11:46:25 PM · #41 |
Crazy!! And we Americans thought we had it bad :(
I used to live in Italy, and prices were outrageous there, too.
This year I decided to beat the pump. I bought a 2004 Toyota Prius for my wife and a 2005 Toyota Prius for me (I know it sounds bad, but she got the one she wanted).
She averages 36.5 MPG, and I get 46, long term. Different driving distances are what make the difference, I think.
GREAT car!! |
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08/08/2005 11:50:58 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by alansfreed:
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Check out the Toyota Prius, seats 5 with plenty of cargo room and 60 MPG city/51 MPG highway. |
Just 60? How 'bout 110 mpg? :)
These guys did this test this weekend just down the road from where we live... in fact, I wound up following them the other afternoon. Pretty tempting to get one of those babies! |
Nice... you wouldn't want to be a passenger on a "pulse and glide" drive though, but it is an effective technique for fuel economy on any hybrid that uses the Toyata system.
-Terry
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08/09/2005 12:41:48 AM · #43 |
hubbie just traded his Land Rover (8 mpg) for the Honda Civic Hybrid. (1 million mpg)=P So far he seems to like it. It is very interesting to drive but for now I will keep my Pathfinder that gets about 15 mpg..
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08/09/2005 09:35:35 AM · #44 |
| It's hovering around $2.20/gallon here in Upstate SC...Funny thing with vehicles-On a road trip,my bumpy riding 4 cyl Nissan pickup averages around 25 mpg..Same trip,but in the wife's very comfortable 6 cyl Buick Century,we average around 33 mpg..You'd think,considering the weight and horsepower,it'd be the opposite...The pickup is a basic 5 speed stick,the Buick an automatic w/cruise and power everything !! |
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08/09/2005 10:51:55 AM · #45 |
Originally posted by doctornick:
I paid C$1.05/litre yesterday...US$4/ gallon...so no winging from south of the border! :P |
Actually, $1.05 CAD = $.87 USD x 3.78 (L/gallon) = $3.29 USD/gallon...so we're a bit more, but still a lot less than our non-North American friends.
Edit: Yesterday, I paid about .95/litre (which is high for our area) which works out to about $2.96 USD/gallon.
Message edited by author 2005-08-09 10:55:15. |
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08/09/2005 10:59:05 AM · #46 |
| $2.70 in San Francisco. I fill up my 2003 Prius when it's down about 7 gallons and I've gone about 350 miles. |
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08/09/2005 10:59:44 AM · #47 |
what you all complaining about...this is high
I think this was from last year.
Message edited by author 2005-08-09 11:00:59.
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08/09/2005 11:03:48 AM · #48 |
It pays me to drive to the states or an indian reserve and fill up. I have a 125 litre tank and these goddamn gas prices are killing me. Especially when my summer car is at 109.5 cents per litre x 54 litres. do the math.
109.5 x 54L =$59.13 summer car (almost empty) Usually get me 175 km
94.5 x 125L = $118.12 (bone dry) Highway 800km(very rare)/city 600km
94.5 x 100L = $94.50 (on a 1/4 tank remaining) (same as above. Mostly city driving)
My support is with the US and I say bring Iraq oil back to North America. Fawk O.P.C.
Message edited by author 2005-08-09 11:05:55.
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08/09/2005 11:04:01 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by elderell:
It's hovering around $2.20/gallon here in Upstate SC...Funny thing with vehicles-On a road trip,my bumpy riding 4 cyl Nissan pickup averages around 25 mpg..Same trip,but in the wife's very comfortable 6 cyl Buick Century,we average around 33 mpg..You'd think,considering the weight and horsepower,it'd be the opposite...The pickup is a basic 5 speed stick,the Buick an automatic w/cruise and power everything !! |
Yeah, but the truck has all the aerodynamics of a brick.
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08/09/2005 11:07:30 AM · #50 |
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