Fuel prices: How much do you pay vs the rest of the world?

Australia doesn't use fuel. Apparently.

It's an "other" country

Fuel prices: How much do you pay vs (some of) the rest of the world?

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Fixed it for ya

mccardey said:

Australia doesn't use fuel. Apparently.

It's an "other" country

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I thought you were all fuelled on lager?

*ducks and runs*

On the low side of the middle here, which sounds about right. I live on the outskirts of a city which means gas is expensive, but I have a small car that doesn't cost outrageous amounts to fill.

I receive these figures every month for my job and know that the UK is quite high up the table when it comes to fuel prices. But the Netherlands pay an average of £1.52 a litre for unleaded. Compare that to the States, where they pay 55p a litre.

Which is why I always roll my eyes when I hear Americans complaining about the price of gas.......

It's around the £1.30-£1.40 a litre here. I'm too lazy to convert that into Euros. But it's way expensive I'm guessing to the rest of the world.

mirandashell said:

I receive these figures every month for my job and know that the UK is quite high up the table when it comes to fuel prices. But the Netherlands pay an average of £1.52 a litre for unleaded. Compare that to the States, where they pay 55p a litre.

Which is why I always roll my eyes when I hear Americans complaining about the price of gas.......

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One of the big reasons we complain is because very few places in the U.S. have decent public transportation and we have to commute long distances to get to work. Also, since America grew up as an automobile-centric society, it's not easy to walk or bike most places. Until recently, I was driving over 60 miles a day to and from work. I spent about $80 every five days, or $480 per month, in gas. My husband still commutes 30 miles per day and spends about $300 per month in gas. That's a huge chunk of many household budgets.

Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, and Portugal pay between 1.30 and 1.40.

Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden pay over that.

Beachgirl said:

That's a huge chunk of many household budgets.

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True, but considering you pay a third of what the rest of us pay, surely you can understand the eye-rolling when you're bitching about it. A lot of people in other countries commute as well. Maybe not as far, but it's still a huge whack out of a wage. So expecting sympathy from someone paying £1.30 to your 55p is asking a lot.......

Living in Texas and driving a small car really pays off. In the past 5 months,I haven't paid more than 3.20a gallon to as low as 3.00 a gallon. Since I work not far from my home I only spend maybe 60 a month on gas.

There are an awful lot of hefty commutes in Australia, but we have a decent rail system. A 90 minute commute by train was not uncommon at all where I grew up - but the trains were good.

There was a lot of reading done, as I remember

AshleyEpidemic said:

Living in Texas and driving a small car really pays off. In the past 5 months,I haven't paid more than 3.20a gallon to as low as 3.00 a gallon. Since I work not far from my home I only spend maybe 60 a month on gas.

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Same pricing here, only exception is that hubby works about 40 miles from home so we spend a bit more on gas than we'd like. It's much better down here than it was when we were in Michigan, so we don't complain.

mirandashell said:

True, but considering you pay a third of what the rest of us pay, surely you can understand the eye-rolling when you're bitching about it. A lot of people in other countries commute as well. Maybe not as far, but it's still a huge whack out of a wage. So expecting sympathy from someone paying £1.30 to your 55p is asking a lot.......

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But what could we use for small talk if we didn't have gas prices to b*tch about?

SelmaW said:

But what could we use for small talk if we didn't have gas prices to b*tch about?

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I get a lot of mileage out of the Oxford Comma.

(Also litfic vs genre.)

Our snow is worse than your snow. So is our wind and rain. Plus you keep spelling 'colour' wrong.

jvc said:

Our snow is worse than your snow. So is our wind and rain. Plus you keep spelling 'colour' wrong.

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Yeah well... well... we have a really big hole that we haven't bothered to fill in yet!

SelmaW said:

Yeah well... well... we have a really big hole that we haven't bothered to fill in yet!

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Pfft...

Call that a hole?

God I love this site!

I don't mind you bitching, just don't expect me not to eye-roll!


LOL!

To fill your tank you pay: $40.89

You pay $3.22 less than average in your region

Without tax, you would only pay $36.38
Most expensive

In Netherlands you would pay $73.49 more
Cheapest

In Venezuela you would pay $39.58 less

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Looks like my fuel tank is around 18 gallons according to the site. To fill my tank I usually pay around $40. I was able to get $2.17 per gallon because I drove about 8 miles to the next town where a friend showed me that gas is generally cheaper than most places.

$2.17 is €1.6
I did a gallon conversion it looks like 18 gallons = 68.14 Litres
$39.06 =€28.82 to fill my tank
€28.82/68.14L = €0.4/Litre if my calculations are correct.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm showing 1 L = 0.264 gal and 1 gal = 3.785 L

Err...I think I paid $3.17 per gallon...but the bbc site said 18 gallons for a civic? does that sound about right?

Fuel tank capacity (U.S. gal.)13.2 now I'm really confused lol

13.2 gal = 49.97 Litres (L)
3.17$/gal = €2.34
13.2 gal * 3.17 = $41.844 to fill tank
$41.84 = €30.87 to fill tank

€30.87/49.97L = €0.62/L

That sounds better

mirandashell said:

I don't mind you bitching, just don't expect me not to eye-roll!


LOL!

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Oh, whew! I thought you didn't want me to bitch, which, you know...probably isn't gonna happen.

We're paying about $3.39 per gallon here right now. Not sure what that works out to when translated to liters and pounds. I've travelled a lot, so I know we do pay much cheaper prices for many things, gas included. Though it goes up significantly during hurricane season, especially if we have a storm churning off the coast.

And I gotta say, I was super impressed when I visited London and rode around on the tube. Even with it's faults, those of you over there should be proud - you've built an impressive system.

Lately it costs about $68 to fill the tank of my Jeep Wrangler, every 5-6 days. But I 4x4 a lot, so I could probably do a little better.

SelmaW said:

Yeah well... well... we have a really big hole that we haven't bothered to fill in yet!

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Yeah, but we have some huge stones in a henge, which actually isn't a henge, more of an arrangement.

It cost me, well, not me, but the company I work for, £108 to fill up the tank in a van.