$2.99!!

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Out of Order

Sign of the Times
Feb 9, 2011
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New Hampster
Think we're hovering around $3.05 here. Have a .10 tax on each gallon that goes to roads, or we'd be under $3, too. (relatively new, that tax, it has been in effect for about a year.)

Highway Robbery!!!!:emmersed:

Looks like you and me, CAT, are paying the highest.....:mad-new:

...2.77 at the fillemup stations here....but OoO?....I have plenty of natural gas if you'd like to buy in....

:D

No.
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Where I gas up it's 1.05..........per litre, that is.

If you want to know what that is in American, just ask Spidey. She's my numbers person. :D
I figured out the liters to gallons, euros to dollars ratio a couple of years ago when a friend in Ireland laughed at our whinging here and about passed out. We were complaining about gas hovering around $4/gallon and she was paying nearly $9/gallon (after all the conversions) :shock:
 

Mr Nobody

Well-Known Member
Jul 9, 2008
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Walsall, England
The UK went metric on petrol a number of years ago. Current price here is around £1.26 per litre. At 4.55 litres to an Imperial gallon, that works out to £5.73 per gallon - or around US$9.
So stop complaining. :D

EDIT: £1.26 is about as low as it's been in ~3 years. Highest was £1.41.
 

Mr Nobody

Well-Known Member
Jul 9, 2008
3,306
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Walsall, England
When the price was higher and pound was stronger against the dollar, our fuel worked out to almost $11 a gallon.
I said at the time that if it ever reached near that level in the US, there'd be riots.

IIRC, because sterling was also strong against the euro, it worked out that we had the most expensive petrol in the developed world, and by quite some margin. There was a tax increase of 2p per litre due, too. That was scrapped in a hurry. (Some 57% of what's paid at the pump goes to HM Treasury.)