[OT] [PW] [Long] America Bashing

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Huh? California was "an oil & gas state", too, last time I looked. How
come we're paying as much as $2.75 a gallon, some places?


LOL! I wish ours cost that! 79.5 pence a *litre* I have to pay. Isn't
that around 8 dollars or so a gallon?

"Only" about $6.10 a gallon, using today's exchange rate - assuming a
litre is a about a quart with four quarts to a gallon. (Actually, I think
a litre is slightly more than a quart.)

4.5 litres (ish) to the English gallon.

We Americans complain about our gas prices,
without realizing that we are "protected" from paying the true market
value as the rest of the world does! (But for someone who can still
remember when it was 36 cents per gallon, $2.75 is quite an increase, even
allowing for inflation!)

When I was 18 I was saving up to buy a horse, and took a Saturday and Sunday
job at a petrol station. Petrol then was 33p per gallon.

Tweed

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Christina Websell wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Huh? California was "an oil & gas state", too, last time I looked.
How
come we're paying as much as $2.75 a gallon, some places?


LOL! I wish ours cost that! 79.5 pence a *litre* I have to pay.
Isn't
that around 8 dollars or so a gallon?

"Only" about $6.10 a gallon, using today's exchange rate -
assuming a litre is a about a quart with four quarts to a
gallon. (Actually, I think a litre is slightly more than a
quart.) We Americans complain about our gas prices,
without realizing that we are "protected" from paying the
true market value as the rest of the world does! (But for
someone who can still remember when it was 36 cents per
gallon, $2.75 is quite an increase, even allowing for
inflation!)


You must have grown up further from refineries -- even though I'm
younger than you are, I remember New Jersey prices around $0.25 a
gallon, in the early fifties.

In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote:

When I was 18 I was saving up to buy a horse, and took a Saturday and
Sunday
job at a petrol station. Petrol then was 33p per gallon.


There is a certain symmetry between that job and its goal.

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
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In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote:

When I was 18 I was saving up to buy a horse, and took a Saturday and
Sunday
job at a petrol station. Petrol then was 33p per gallon.


There is a certain symmetry between that job and its goal.

Is there? Let me in on it then ;-)

Tweed

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote
I have read that the UK has the world's highest fuel-tax rates,
apparently as a deliberate measure to encourage use of public
transportation rather than individual vehicles.

We certainly have high fuel duties, but we don't kid ourselves it's to
encourage use of public transportation :-( Our public transportation system is
woefully underfunded, and in many areas it's almost non-existant (rural areas
for example). The fuel duty is more to fuel government coffers than any
environmental tag put on it. If you want to see some truly integrated &
well-thought-out public transport solutions, go no further than say many parts
of France and Germany - Netherlands too. It's one of the things that really
gets my goat about many of the Europhobic press in the UK, slagging off
"Brussels" and the EU at every opportunity, as quite often in matters "public"
there's a lot of mainland Europe that does things soooo much better than we
Brits.

I think you are wrong. True, they do not do a very good job of
providing public transport, but the reason for high fuel taxes is to
dissuade car use anyway.

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In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote:

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
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In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote:

When I was 18 I was saving up to buy a horse, and took a Saturday and
Sunday
job at a petrol station. Petrol then was 33p per gallon.


There is a certain symmetry between that job and its goal.

Is there? Let me in on it then ;-)

Tweed




Feeding cars to get a non-car to feed?

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
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In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote:

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
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In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote:

When I was 18 I was saving up to buy a horse, and took a Saturday and
Sunday
job at a petrol station. Petrol then was 33p per gallon.


There is a certain symmetry between that job and its goal.

Is there? Let me in on it then ;-)

Tweed




Feeding cars to get a non-car to feed?

Ah, yes. Got it.

Tweed

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 14:27:08 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:

Because, despite all the "added on" taxes, consumer gasoline
prices in America are "protected".

By what mechanism is this protection accomplished? When you subtract
the taxes the price per gallon of gasoline in the US is not
significantly different from the price for similar grades in other
markets. The taxes on fuel in the UK are high (I think the highest in
the EU) at over four dollars and thirty-four cents per US gallon (60p
per litre). Fuel taxes in the US average 42 cents per gallon (a
little less than 6p per litre). The highest taxes are in Hawaii at 53
cents per gallon. The lowest taxes are in Alaska at 26 cents per
gallon. Motorists in the UK are getting the **** taxed out of them
compared to motorists in the US.

"Sherry " wrote in message
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Sherry wrote:

Which may welll explain some snide comments when an American goes
into
an
international newsgroup (not this one) to complain about the price of
gas
going up and how much it will now cost his/her hum-vee to run.


Some Americans really love their gas-hogs. My DH does no matter how
much
I nag.
I have never had a car that wasn't economical. Since this is an oil &
gas
state, our gas is cheaper than average.

Huh? California was "an oil & gas state", too, last time I looked.
How
come we're paying as much as $2.75 a gallon, some places?


California is an oil & gas state? Really, I didn't know that. I filled up
the
car today, paid $1.65 a gallon. That's a huge difference from what you
guys are
paying.

Sherry

It sure is! I think I paid $2.09 a gallon for my last tankfull, and that
was down from the time before.

Joy

"Adrian" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

LOL! I wish ours cost that! 79.5 pence a *litre* I have to pay.
Isn't that around 8 dollars or so a gallon?

Tweed
(they stopped telling us how much a gallon was, quite a while ago in
case we went went crazy about it. We are so gullible it doesn't seem
so bad priced in litres :-( )

It gets complicated to compare, the US gallon is 3.785412 litres, less
than an imperial gallon (4.546092 litres). So at today's exchange rate
79.5 pence per litre would be $5.765 per US gallon. Which is still
expensive by american standards.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

Yes, it is.

Joy