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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... 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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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. |
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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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. -- David Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 11 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 2 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- |
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In article , "Christina Websell"
wrote: "Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message ... 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? |
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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message ... In article , "Christina Websell" wrote: "Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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. |
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"Sherry " wrote in message
... 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 |
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"Adrian" wrote in message
... 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 |
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