Fuel Prices

[Something Else]

www.gasbuddy.com

needs some international input.

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Ride your bikes you lazy good for nothing couch potatoes.

[Valleysboy1978]

60 mile round trip. Yeah right.
This also doesn't include client visits in London which is a 320 round trip...don't think even you could cycle that

[NoteMe]

I often take a bike trip to london during the weekends. *true*

[Devion]

British pay the most? Xcuse me? The dutch at the moment still pay the most ranging up to about $6-8 per gallon (That's including local gas station discounts)

[FishGuy]

Yes I was talking to a dutch taxi driver. He was saying they also pay more road tax depending on car size. He said everything has gone up in price since the euro aswell, what was 3 guilders is now 3 euro.

[grilkip]

what was 3 guilders is now 3 euro.

That's what the people say and people are idiots.

Yes, bars and such did pump it up, but on average prices didn't rise that much. That cab-drivers problem is that he spends 3 EURO as if they were 3 Guilders, but they are not.

[FishGuy]

Was he telling the truth about the paying more per vehicle size?

[dglienna]

Hope nobody from Congress gets hold of that info. Now, they charge by number of axles. Trucks pay more. Plus, if you don't have an electronic transponder to pay the tolls, they charge DOUBLE! They enacted that law a few months ago.

I've had one for a few years, but a lot of people don't have one, as it requires a credit card (or least it did) You have to slow down to 15mph, but a lot of booths have a stop sign! I know someone that got busted for running one, after he had been drinking! He didn't even notice it!

Needless to say, he won't be missing it ever again.

[grilkip]

Was he telling the truth about the paying more per vehicle size?

yup, and to me it makes sence since they put a greater strain on the roadnet and the environment.

[Valleysboy1978]

Amen to that

[Shaggy Hiker]

I have a 3 hour dirve every morning and a 3 hour drive every evening.

Yeah, but you live in Seattle. What's the distance of the commute, one mile or two?

[RobDog888]

Doesnt matter if its 1/2 a mile each way if there is bumper to bumper traffic and it takes that long to go 1/2 mile.

I hate traffic

[Shaggy Hiker]

about 30mpg which is average in Europe, although I have a sports coupe so the mpg is more like 20-25

That's unimpressive. I would have thought you'd have higher gas mileage than that. My subaru gets 30mpg (highway driving, but there's not much else out here). My old Honda got 40. I thought you folks would have better mileage than that.

My current vehicle is: 1) My feet, 2) A bike, and 3) a car. Each is used depending on how far I am going. I only use the car for longer trips. Around town it is: feet if I need to carry alot and have time, or bike if I want to go faster.

Frankly, I sometimes am a net producer of gas

[RobDog888]

I get 12~14 miles per gallon in my car. Even less when I have a "lead foot".

[Valleysboy1978]

That's unimpressive. I would have thought you'd have higher gas mileage than that. My subaru gets 30mpg (highway driving, but there's not much else out here). My old Honda got 40. I thought you folks would have better mileage than that.

My current vehicle is: 1) My feet, 2) A bike, and 3) a car. Each is used depending on how far I am going. I only use the car for longer trips. Around town it is: feet if I need to carry alot and have time, or bike if I want to go faster.

Frankly, I sometimes am a net producer of gas

I wasn't trying to impress you, besides the figure I gave you is urban driving. If you wanted to compare mpg for highway driving then it would be around 45mpg. Impressive enough for you?

[dglienna]

I had a '75 Cutlass 442, with a 5.56 rear end in it and a built 455ci motor.
Top speed of around 80mph. I could SEE the gas gauge move down while I was on the highway! The BEST I ever got was 6mpg per tank.
It was fun, though.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I wasn't trying to impress you, besides the figure I gave you is urban driving. If you wanted to compare mpg for highway driving then it would be around 45mpg. Impressive enough for you?

Yeah, that's better. I am fairly disgusted with our move to SUVs in this country. I was hoping the decline in real efficiency was limitted to this country.

[Valleysboy1978]

The cheaper the fuel the bigger the car people will get.
What infuriates me over here is when Mothers insist they need these big 4x4s (SUVs) for the morning run to school. Good god! Is this school in the middle of a mud field? Or perhaps their child is so huge they cannot fit into a normal car?

[Matt_T_hat]

I've always noticed that no mater where you go fuel has a price. Damn annoying that.

[FunkyDexter]

You guys probably have good public transportation, or if not, don't have to commute so far ?

Nope, our public transport is garbage (REALLY GARBAGE!!) and I spent a year and half commuting 100 miles/day (50 each way) because it was the only programming job I could find when I left University (things were kinda slumpish at the time).

The truth is that the US public has had it pretty cushy as far as petrol prices are concerned for a long time and you've built your lifestyles based on an assumption that this would continue. Seems like quite a sensible aproach to me so that's not meant as a criticism. However, as world demand increases faster than supply, I'm afraid you're likely to feel the brunt of it and it's gonna hurt for a while. You'll get use to it though.

The best advice anyone who hasn't had the same low prices can offer you is: move closer to your job, that's what we do (my 100 mile commute being an exception, obviously).

I was hoping the decline in real efficiency was limitted to this country

Nah, contrary to what many of my European compatriates seem to think, America does NOT have a monopoly on *******s.