Hi all,

I've heard gas is incredibly pricey over there, as compared to the sates here. Its going for about $1.45 a gallon. That rolls out to about $0.38 a liter. I'm not sure how you guys measure it. I'm just wondering for S's n G's.

-IggDawg

 

Optimax(ssul) is 85.9p a litre!!!!!

 

er.. omfg.
sul (optimax) is 78.9p filled up this morning.

 

About $1.17 per litre over here...ouch

Tim

 

Sorry. Stupid american again. what does that translate to dollars in? I'm a physicist, not a mathamatician.

-IggDawg

 

Ahh. posted as my question was answered preemptively. =)

 

omg. Thats almost a 5-spot for a gallon of gas!! $4.43 a gallon. wow. how do you guys do it? I drive about 200 miles a day. 90 mile one-way commute. I can't imagine that at 5 bucks a gallon.

 

all I can say is

 

What exchange rate you using then?
79.9p a litre is £3.62 a gallon (imp gallon)
At 1.48 $/£ that equates to $5.36!!!!!!!!

I was in Florida last year and filled my car up for about $10, I couldn't stop laughing

 

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<B>wow. how do you guys do it? I drive about 200 miles a day. 90 mile one-way commute. I can't imagine that at 5 bucks a gallon.
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Reluctantly!

Nobody enjoys paying that much for fuel, but we just have to figure it into the monthly budget and work around it. But there are some small consolations: because in the UK towns tend to be closer together, very few people commute anything like that far. Plus we tend to drive more efficient cars on the whole, although the readers of this bbs are, by definition, likely to have traded mpg for bhp

Andy

 

Can you imagine driving the old beast I used to? a 7-Liter V8 pulling along a car weighing between 2.5 and 3 tons? back when I had that monster, prices were real low. I'd get premium for around $1.15 a gallon. you could find regular for as low as $0.79 a gallon. It was crazy. Score one for USA. (then look at the cool cars you guys get. PPP and all, and score one for the UK.)

-IggDawg

 

If we paid that little for fuel and think we would rather have a 7 litre V8, not in such a heavy car though. Shelby had the right idea there. BTW how much do you guys pay for LPG?. Now a 7 litre V8 LPG car, that sounds quite good.

 

Sometimes i have to drive to Barcelona from Amsterdam. It's a 12 hour journey, and i spend $350,- on fuel alone. (costs the same to get back.)

 

Pardon my american ignorance and all, but whats "LPG"?

 

Answer to Spender.

American Gallons not as big as UK (imp)gallons. Hence the conversion discrepancy. Best sticking to Litres when comparing these prices.

 

I was at Daytona raceway last year and on the tour they mentioned that the race fuel (110 octane I think) was about £5 a gallon, the yanks gasped but we all laughed.