Gasoline price in your country

[SensoVision]

Just wonder how much liter of gasoline cost in your country? Here price is constantly raising and it's also boost prices on the rest of goods, because increase of transportation costs. I don't drive so don't look for price everyday last one I saw was about 1.10USD for one liter.
And I'm asking this question as recently one person claimed that in US you could buy 5 liters for 1 dollar, is it really true? It would be interesting to find how much it cost in other countries.

[Queen Bee]

In my part of the country (Wesley Chapel/ Tampa, Florida) the cost is approximately $3.05USD for 4 liters, or $0.76USD for 1 liter. Here are the current state averages from AAA. The lowest state average is $2.89USD in Missouri.

[SensoVision]

Thanks Rachel!
It seems that you really have lower prices but not as low as what was claimed.

[donecweb]

Yesterday I bought gas and paid $2.979 for 3.79 liters or 1 gal here in central Texas.

[Andy]

I think the UK has one of the highest gas prices in the world. I liter costs about $4 from what I last heard. Just as well I sold my gas guzzling car when I did (it would have cost about $200 to fill the tank making the car difficult to sell).

In Japan it is about $1.20 per liter.

So US gas is still cheap!

I guess with Texas having desert land, crude oil is more plentiful than fresh water?

[SensoVision]

I think the UK has one of the highest gas prices in the world. I liter costs about $4 from what I last heard. Just as well I sold my gas guzzling car when I did (it would have cost about $200 to fill the tank making the car difficult to sell).

$200 to refill car That's average salary here.

[Andy]

$200 to refill car Shocked That's average salary here.

I know, it's crazy. Each tire on the car cost $200 from a discount place, normally it would be $400+ per tyre. To fix a leak on the Air Con, I was quoted about $1,600. Insurance was about $500 a year with 60% no claim discount and up to 10,000 miles use per year.

I just wanted to own a luxury car once in my life so it was fun while it lasted and I got it out of my system now.

[donecweb]

I think the UK has one of the highest gas prices in the world. I liter costs about $4 from what I last heard. Just as well I sold my gas guzzling car when I did (it would have cost about $200 to fill the tank making the car difficult to sell).

In Japan it is about $1.20 per liter.

So US gas is still cheap!

I guess with Texas having desert land, crude oil is more plentiful than fresh water?

That's not quite true Andy  however, we n Texas have to do a lot more driving to get from one place to another since things are so far apart. Example for me to go to a large mall I have to go about 10 miles (16 km) or more the only thing close enough for walking is a small Speedy Stop about a mile away the best mall is over 20 miles (32 km) away. Also the public transportation here is nothing compared to Europe and many other places.

[Menard]

So US gas is still cheap!

Not quite.

Though I do believe that we do have an edge on gas prices, when you take into account that Americans drive over 4 times as many miles (and not leisure mileage) as Europeans and that we pay separately taxes which are often included in the price of gasoline in European countries, we are not all that different in what we are paying.

From what I understand though, I think consumers in England are really getting the shaft over many others. In addition to the gas prices, England (from my understanding) has some of the highest taxes in the world.

What about Japan? Do they include various taxes in the price of gasoline? How much does the average Japanese driver drive each day?

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[Menard]

BTW, it costs about $90 to fill my van at the current rate (it has a 30 gallon tank).

It costs about $48 to fill my caddy (a 16 gallon tank).

The caddy gets about 16 miles to the gallon while the van gets about 10; I don't drive the van much.

[Andy]

I didn't think about the distances you have to travel in the states such as Texas. Plus you have some fuel inefficient vehicles. 10/16 MPG is bad.

In Britain the prices are often based on a 1:1 exchange ratio with the USA even though the actual exchange rate is more like 1:2. As regards tax, it can be extremely high. I don't know the actual tax in fuel, but most of the price is due to tax. Then you buy the fuel from pay that may have been taxed at up to 40%. And you buy the fuel to get to work to pay for this fuel 

It's a nightmare for most people that commute to work in England. It takes like 45 minutes of stop-start driving.

Everyone is stressed and road rage incidents are common.

The office workers do battle with the parents driving kids to school and some people do both tasks every day.

If you use the motorway, it's a flip of a coin chance that you will get to work on time due to accidents holding up the progress. Try the M4 towards London at 8:00am on a Monday to get a flavor for what I am talking about.

Some mornings I couldn't even get onto the feeder road to join the queue so I went home and took a day off.

I really don't like to remember what it was like. Now it is probably worse.

Public transport is good for connectivity in Europe and Japan but you have to pay premium prices for housing to live where you work in many cases. So most people commute for a long distance/long time to get to work.

It seems like the price of gasoline went up in Japan, now it's 155 yen per litre for regular grade.

[Menard]

I didn't think about the distances you have to travel in the states such as Texas. Plus you have some fuel inefficient vehicles. 10/16 MPG is bad.

Texas is a big state, but I don't live there. Kentucky is not a very big state, but it is bigger than some European countries. Regardless of the state, you still either work within your town or commute to another town to work.

Commuting is becoming more of a necessity, if someone wants a good paying job, due to an increasingly big business friendly government creating a vacuum where competition is being driven out and the big companies are paying little.

The 10/16 MPG ratings are both V8 engines, which is all I have right now. 4 cylinders are more popular here with more of them close to 30+/- MPG and even models in the 40+ range.

[TexasLady]

I've just got to sound off in here.   Gas is hovering around he $3.00 mark for gas, but prices in every area are going
p and up.   Due to fuel costs, Shipping, electricity, manufa
turing, and food are all increasing at an alarming rate. 

JUst as in UK and other places, the overseas suppliers are
having a field day.   Venezuela is one of our biggest bugaboos (bad guys).    So glad the current president did not get elected  for life.  He just LOVES to shaft the US in any way possible.

I guess with Texas having desert land, crude oil is more plentiful than fresh water?

   
Actually Denis, Texas doesn't have all that much desert land.We have the western plaines where cattle graze, mountains, farming land, just about any type of land you can think of.

 Many of the oil wells are small and scattered.    There are individual oil wells all thrugh this area with trucks picking up from tanks on the individual sites and carrying to tank setups where they are pumped out for processing.   We have 5 large tanks on our hilltop plus a salt water pumping tank to force the oil out  of the ground.   I only know of 4 or 5 wells on this 300 acrenot all of which are currently pumping up oil.   Driving the 20 miles into town there are small  wells all the way, with many little oil operations handling them.   So we really need to import large amounts of oil to meet basic needs. 

Why oh why, don't we develop the numerous possibilities for alternative fuels?

[donecweb]

Why oh why, don't we develop the numerous possibilities for alternative fuels?

It's not profitable for the power mongers and oil companies.

[Andy]

Why oh why, don't we develop the numerous possibilities for alternative fuels?

Bev, forgive my ignorance, but on a ranch like where you live, can't horses be ridden into town just like in the days of the Wild West (I'm thinking about your son rather than you) or does a car/jeep have to be used? Where I live, I mostly walk or ride a bicycle even though I have a car.