Crazy gas prices

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  • tiarapants
    tiarapants Posts: 1,015 Member
    It cost me the equivalent of $2.25 a litre here in London yesterday - and that was after trying four different petrol stations because of the panic buying.
  • 5581DANIEL
    5581DANIEL Posts: 2
    If only us poor guys in the UK could get away with prices that cheap!!!! I have worked out the conversions to US prices and I've just filled my car at 10.6 Dollars to the gallon!
  • TAMMYCLARK62
    TAMMYCLARK62 Posts: 98 Member
    Gas price herein Cape Breton is 144.9 per litre.....where does it end.....Canadian government is trying to wipe us off the map I think
  • mixedfeelings
    mixedfeelings Posts: 904 Member
    The gas prices in the US are a lot cheaper than a lot of other places, over here in the UK it's double what it is in the US. Prices are going up everywhere but it's a lot cheaper in the states, imagine if it went in line with a lot of other places.

    In the US you pay a lot less tax on it than elsewhere.
  • HannahMarieMcDougald
    HannahMarieMcDougald Posts: 544
    And I have to fill up today! I have a Nissan Versa which is pretty good on gas..But still prices are crazy high and its not even summer....I guess I will be staying home more..Thank god my apartment has a pool....and a gym......and my job is right in front of where I live...oh yeah gas saving time....
  • DoodleDaft
    DoodleDaft Posts: 41
    I'm in Scotland and it costs a whopping $10.37 per gallon!!! and it's set to rise!!

    I'm in Scotland too and feel your pain, add to that the current panic buying and unscrupulous garages putting up the prices to profiteer from the panic. I'm not buying until my fuel light comes on, a decision I'll hopefully not live to regret! :-))
  • smiller9
    smiller9 Posts: 28 Member
    It is around 3.70 here a gallon.
  • MelissR75
    MelissR75 Posts: 735 Member
    Its $4.09 in Eastern CT. It cost me almost $100.00 to fill up my Durango. There goes my extra money for the week! )':
  • waldenfam2
    waldenfam2 Posts: 203 Member
    Our gas in MI jumped from 3.65 to 4.15 in one day, now its back down, (lol) to 3.89, but we can't walk anywhere here. The stores are on busy dangerous roads and my husband drives 72 miles one way to work. These prices are just killing us. Sometimes I really wish that I lived in a small community that you can walk to stores :(
  • DogsK
    DogsK Posts: 94
    I thought we were well off at $1.60 per litre (regular) down here. Then I done the maths and works out about $6.04 to the gallon. Just goes to show, ignorance is bliss :huh:
  • waldenfam2
    waldenfam2 Posts: 203 Member
    The gas prices in the US are a lot cheaper than a lot of other places, over here in the UK it's double what it is in the US. Prices are going up everywhere but it's a lot cheaper in the states, imagine if it went in line with a lot of other places.

    In the US you pay a lot less tax on it than elsewhere.

    I think our issue here is that many of us work really far from home. I drive on average 20+miles a day and that's usually just taking my kids to school. We live in a different school district than they attend. My husband drives around 145 miles a day to work and goes through a tank of gas every other day. So around $50 every two days for him and about $90 a week for me. Its over half our paycheck every week just to buy gas.
  • noteve
    noteve Posts: 57
    It's really bad here in Iceland.
    $2.1 per litre - that is $7.95 per gallon.

    At least it's slimming - you'll pretty soon start walking/cycling everywhere.
  • daz60
    daz60 Posts: 22
    Here in the uk the prices equates to $2.24 per litre at the moment. dont be moaning yet!
  • harrietlg
    harrietlg Posts: 239
    in the uk our petrol stations are on strike so you'll be lucky to get any fuel at all!! my friend is stranded with a baby because people are just stocking up and she can't get any fuel to drive anywhere
  • ♥ChUbByCoyLe♥
    ♥ChUbByCoyLe♥ Posts: 267 Member
    I'm in Scotland and it costs a whopping $10.37 per gallon!!! and it's set to rise!!

    I'm in Scotland too and feel your pain, add to that the current panic buying and unscrupulous garages putting up the prices to profiteer from the panic. I'm not buying until my fuel light comes on, a decision I'll hopefully not live to regret! :-))

    I was one of those panic buyers i'm afraid!! My car is a gas guzzler and didn't want to be stuck without any petrol.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I want to know why these prices are going up exactly. Why is nothing being done about it?

    It's a globally traded commodity, it's not something that can changed by one person or one country. It's dictating by the world energy prices and the stock markets :(

    Good things take time. And it is time for us to start tapping into our resources.

    Makes no difference if we drill every ounce of American oil out of the ground. Oil prices are controlled by the global markets, not by simple supply or demand. There's plenty of oil in the market anyway. The prices are going up due to oil spectulation and futures trading.

    Read this for a decent explaination as to why: http://money.howstuffworks.com/oil-speculation-raise-gas-price.htm

    P.S. Oil is a finite resource and one of these days we are going to run out even if we drill it all. This is why we need to get on the ball about alternative energy sources. It takes decades to properly develop and implement alternative energy. Do we really want to run out of oil and THEN work on the problem? Talk about a crisis! When supply really does start getting low, we're going to see a massive crisis like the world has never known.
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    I'm so glad I don't have a car right now. I can walk most anywhere I need to go (including work), and if I can't walk there, it costs $1.50 for a day bus pass.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I'm so glad I don't have a car right now. I can walk most anywhere I need to go (including work), and if I can't walk there, it costs $1.50 for a day bus pass.

    I miss that. I used to live in Pittsburgh, and I didn't need a car. Just relied on the bus network and my own two feet. It was so nice!
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    I'm so glad I don't have a car right now. I can walk most anywhere I need to go (including work), and if I can't walk there, it costs $1.50 for a day bus pass.

    I miss that. I used to live in Pittsburgh, and I didn't need a car. Just relied on the bus network and my own two feet. It was so nice!

    Not having the freedom to go out of town whenever sucks, but yeah, it's super nice to not have to worry about everything that goes with having a car. And hey, y'know, walking to the gym and back = a 5k, so when I go, I get in a 5k PLUS whatever I do there! :happy:
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I'm so glad I don't have a car right now. I can walk most anywhere I need to go (including work), and if I can't walk there, it costs $1.50 for a day bus pass.

    I miss that. I used to live in Pittsburgh, and I didn't need a car. Just relied on the bus network and my own two feet. It was so nice!

    Not having the freedom to go out of town whenever sucks, but yeah, it's super nice to not have to worry about everything that goes with having a car. And hey, y'know, walking to the gym and back = a 5k, so when I go, I get in a 5k PLUS whatever I do there! :happy:

    I never found the lack of car to be a problem when going out of town either. I could always rent one or get a cab.

    Nice! :)
  • DoodleDaft
    DoodleDaft Posts: 41
    I'm in Scotland and it costs a whopping $10.37 per gallon!!! and it's set to rise!!

    I'm in Scotland too and feel your pain, add to that the current panic buying and unscrupulous garages putting up the prices to profiteer from the panic. I'm not buying until my fuel light comes on, a decision I'll hopefully not live to regret! :-))

    I was one of those panic buyers i'm afraid!! My car is a gas guzzler and didn't want to be stuck without any petrol.

    You're probably wise! :-)). If there really is a strike we'll be grounded with no fuel, eeek! :-))
  • ednawhatnot
    ednawhatnot Posts: 93 Member
    Looking at current UK fuel prices, I'm so glad I don't have a car. I pay £19 per week for a bus ticket instead, which would otherwise pay for less than three gallons of fuel. British motorists are taxed to the hilt, and the cost of fuel has had an impact on the price of everything else now.
  • taliesyn_
    taliesyn_ Posts: 219 Member
    $8.45/US Gallon here in England.
  • taliesyn_
    taliesyn_ Posts: 219 Member
    Looking at current UK fuel prices, I'm so glad I don't have a car. I pay £19 per week for a bus ticket instead, which would otherwise pay for less than three gallons of fuel. British motorists are taxed to the hilt, and the cost of fuel has had an impact on the price of everything else now.
    Public transport is expensive and poor in my part of the UK - to cover my work journey (35 min each way, £4 ($6.50) in diesel) by train costs more £10.10 ($16.60) and takes 95 min each way due to the walking and train change. Bus services are cheaper but still more expensive than the car and I would be spending 6 hours each day on the bus to/from work.
  • Remi79
    Remi79 Posts: 346 Member
    $3.79 here in Wisconsin USA. I guess I'm glad I don't live on the coasts with the prices you are all putting up.
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    I want to know why these prices are going up exactly. Why is nothing being done about it?
    I don't actually hate to be cynical, but my answer to your question is Republicans don't want anything done about it. Jimmy Carter called for less demand for foreign oil 30 some years ago.. Reagan got elected, took the solar panels off the white house and today, we're still having the same discussions and FIGHting innovations that will decrease that dependence. Drill Baby Drill is stupid if people think that will solve the problem when the US consumes 20 % (I think) of the world's oil supply but sits on 2%. Plus what we drill goes into the world market- it is not used HERE! We could bleed our supplies dry and it wouldn't be enough. So to end my rant, I believe we need to use ALL possible methods to decrease dependence on foreign oil, realize it has to be done over the long term, come to grips that the president can't really do anything meaningful alone.... and we have to think forward because after 30 years we're still behind the 8 ball. sorry. good morning all
  • taliesyn_
    taliesyn_ Posts: 219 Member
    You Americans are lucky that you don't have the tax burden on fuel that we do. It isn't that long ago that I remember a gallon of gas in the US was $1 or so - not in my living memory has it ever been that low in the UK, and I am 48!
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    I want to know why these prices are going up exactly. Why is nothing being done about it?

    It's a globally traded commodity, it's not something that can changed by one person or one country. It's dictating by the world energy prices and the stock markets :(

    Good things take time. And it is time for us to start tapping into our resources.
    our best resource in the long term is our ability to innovate. Moving away from oil should be a long term goal. we simply don't have enough oil for 'tapping our resources' to make much of a dent in supply.
  • mmstgr
    mmstgr Posts: 578 Member
    Looking at current UK fuel prices, I'm so glad I don't have a car. I pay £19 per week for a bus ticket instead, which would otherwise pay for less than three gallons of fuel. British motorists are taxed to the hilt, and the cost of fuel has had an impact on the price of everything else now.

    And that's another thing....
    We just got through dealing with a month and a half long bus strike!
    People had to drop out of school, lose jobs, etc because they couldn't get a way around.
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
    LOL at least you can get it! it's running out here as everyone is panic buying :frown:

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