Topic: UK fuel prices

[Tim2005]

Anyone else fed up with paying £1.04 a litre? Sign here...

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/reducefuelduty/

[Bob Wessner]

Did I do my litre to gallon and pound to dollar conversion correctly?? Is that $8.15 U.S. per gallon?

[CrisPDuk]

Sounds about right Bob, there are 4.54L in a real (Imperial) gallon.

Is the exchange rate still around 2:1?

1.04 is cheap by the way, some friends are telling me it's up above 1.10 in places


Thank God I'm still in here Thailand, with somebody else is paying my fuel bills

[SteveD CB500F]

Bob, as discussed before, our "real" gallons are bigger than yours:

£1.04/litre
$2.15/litre (2.07 this morning)
$9.69/Imperial gallon (4.5 litres)
$10.66/US gallon (1.1)

[Dennis]

Bob, as discussed before, our "real" gallons are bigger than yours:

£1.04/litre
$2.15/litre (2.07 this morning)
$9.69/Imperial gallon (4.5 litres)
$10.66/US gallon (1.1)

Steve --

You lost me here. How does our smaller gallon (approx 3.8 liter) cost more than your Imperial gallon approx 4.5 liter.

[Bob Wessner]

I was trying to equate it to U.S. prices (currently about $3.19/gallon for reg. around Ann Arbor) This is  how I came up with it.

1 US gallon = 3.7854118 litres
1.04 pounds x 3.79 litres = 3.94 pounds/ U.S. Gallon
3.94 pounds = 8.11 USD

Either way, pretty expensive. Those of us in the U.S. have little to complain about. It probably won't stop us from doing so, however.

[dustyc]

Mostly I want to complain because the cost has gone up so much over a short amount of time from $1/gallon to $3 just over the last 3-4 years.  A sudden change like that doesn't give people much time to change their habits or needs. 

I've adapted by not driving as much, making the most of my trips and driving slower.  I don't think that's a bad thing, it's good to not be wasteful (driving to the store 15 times a week or making the daily commute at 75mph). 

And it spurred me to get a bike.  I love getting 40-50 mpg and having fun doing it.  I really love getting 24 mpg and having LOTS of fun doing that(read getting on it through some twisty country roads).

I'll sign your petition if I can, but I think it's just for your country and I'm in the U.S.

What also irritates me is that it seems like they increase the price at whim if there is a bad storm or someone makes a political statement. Like when recently someone here was talking about genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire a hundred years ago and Turkey got mad, the price went up. That's just ridiculous.

I'd take Saddam back for $1/gal gas again.  -I mean how much better off are the Iraqis?  Will anything be different over there once the troops pull out?

[BobbyR]

While they pay more for fuel in the UK and other places than we do. In the UK the tax money goes into National Health Care. So, they get something for their money. Here we get nothing for the taxes. Oh yeah, they are using the gas tax here to maintain the roads. Since they never fix the roads, I guess we here in the US just pay and pay. What are they banging you all for Health coverage a month?

[stringfellow1946]

Nope i'd be quite happy to pay £1.04 per litre over here on the IOW I found one garage selling petrol at £1.14 per litre and diesel at £1.18 .

[robrffr]

Anyone noticed how the fuel prices are creeping back up again?

[rhos1355]

Yup, but the crude oil price has gone up to $71+ a barrel.
Having said that, when the price was rock bottom 6 months ago (think they went down to minus $40/barrel. Did the price at the pump reflect that? Did it bollix. Now, as soon as the crude price inches up, then sure enough the pumps price rises accordingly.
It's all these speculators on the derivatives market. It's no good to them if everything's hunky dorey in the world, but as soon as North Korea farts or some minute refinery drops it's output for some reason, then zoooooom the bidding goes sky high.
By the way;

£80million for Ronaldo?

Recession's definitely over..........but the man on the street doesn't know it yet.