UK Petrol (Gas) Prices Reach $18.00 A Gallon $4.00 A Litre!!

And still the petrol and diesel prices keep climbing.

Next county up, Devonshire, 100 miles from here, Exeter, petrol (gas) and diesel now at $18.00 a Gallon or $4.00 a Litre!!



And in the U.S. they are complaining at $4.00 or so per gallon!

 

Are you sure that sign is right? Seems a very high price and unusual that both unleaded and diesel are the same.

 

yikes! That bites

 

We pay around $2-$2.2 +-10%

If here it would be $4 I guess we would have civil war....

Insane anyway

 

Ooh, around here it's only £1.20.

 

How does Tesco get their petrol at such a low price.

Continuously, Tesco and other supermarkets get the cheapest.

After them, it's Shell which are also cheap.

 

It's no doubt been pushed up due to the Shell tanker drivers strike and general petrol shortages at the moment, but the fact is, that a garage in Exeter is actually charging this amount for both petrol and diesel.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-litre-petrol-stations-face-running-fuel.html

 

And your avegare payout is around $800 ...
We can not drive more than 10 000 KM in one payout, waht a shame for our economy
($2.2/litre, 360litres per monthly payout, makes it on a 5l/100km car barely 7000KM)

 

i have not had a car for 6 years living in Chicago IL. its the best

 

How many times does this need to be explained.
There are many reasons you can not compare your fuel prices to ours.

#1 We pay BILLIONS in other taxes for the purpose of securing oil in the US.
#2 Our cars do not get nearly the fuel economy as your cars get.
#3 Our country is MUCH larger than most European countries, we drive further distances. Many people drive to work distances here that would drive clear a crossed your countries.

These are just a few reasons you can not honestly compare our 'priced' fuels to yours. Our fuel costs much more than what it states at the pump through many indirect methods.

 

Oh, guess what nearly 70% of our fuel price is tax!

 

Good point and true, about 60% at my place
Someday there will be a tax from tax.
It's an unbelievable high tax though

 

Well, funny you should mention it people purchasing fuel in the UK already pay tax on their tax - VAT is charged in addition to fuel duty. Only in the UK could people stand for being taxed twice on the same purchase.

 

Value Added Tax (VAT) 17.5% not to mention all the other stealth taxes.

Some of you guys would be horrified at the prices we pay for most things in the UK.

As for distances travelled, I don't think that comes into the equation, back in my sales rep days i was easily clocking up 100,000 miles per year.

Also the notion, argument that we get so many more miles to the gallon holds no water, many vehicles are about the same. In reality I doubt there is that much difference.

 

A sales rep is not the 'average' driver now is it?

Really, that's strange as every article I have ever read, every person I have ever talked to from Europe shows the US having much, much larger engines and cars that get worse fuel economy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17344368/

Wow the US has '2' when this article was written that gets 40 or more miles per gallon, Europe has 113, appears to me you guys get much better fuel economy.
My SUV gets about 12-14 ON A GOOD DAY, my car gets low 20's

According to this you get roughly 2x the fuel efficiency we get

Appears the notion holds much more water than you realized.

 

Whatever your problem is and your penchant for for being so argumentative, please don't bring it on to my threads.

Thank you.

 

Oh so being factual is 'argumentative' and having a 'problem'



A simple admitting 'you were wrong' would have sufficed.

hmmm I wonder why I would have wanted to correct you....

 

On Ignore, cannot read your comments.