How Much are you Paying for Gasoline

[MikeTbob]

In your area, how much are you paying for gasoline? Is that higher or lower than usual? For those outside the USA, please try to convert your currency to $USD, it would take me a long time to convert the many different currencies.
About 3 months ago, I was paying 3.99 per gallon, today I paid 2.16 per gallon,,,,WOOHOOO.

[Lostfarmer]

In south-west Idaho yesterday it was $3.09 per gal.

[b2bwild]

3.5247 for Gallon in India.. Damn its too much T_T

[questio verum]

About 3 months ago, I was paying 3.99 per gallon, today I paid 2.16 per gallon,,,,WOOHOOO.

Yeah, it's crazy alright. I think $4.059 was the highest I paid, and that was at a station near the St. Augustine Outlet Mall. Where I live (on the south GA coast), I think the highest was $3.999. For the last three days the GOASIS super station near the interstate has had it for $2.199.

I've been following the chatter on the radio and they're predicting a gradual price decrease until demand catches up with supply and the oil speculators overcome their fear of the market. Then it's predicted that prices will shoot back up and past the high of a few months ago. I sure am glad I don't have to pay the gas bill for my work vehicle. At 100+ bucks a pop I would go broke quick.

[elija]

Over here in the UK I am currently paying approximately $6.25 per US Gallon. It has recently dropped from around about $8.00.

Do our American cousins still feel like complaining

[bigtomrodney]

I'm paying €1.20 per litre so I guess that's about USD$5.67 per gallon.

The sick thing about the recent oil prices is that they should really have affected the USA more than anywhere else, in that from what I could see it was mostly currency related. At the time of the recent crisis the dollar was dropping daily which made the barrel price of oil go up; remember that oil barrel prices are set in dollars by OPEC. The rise of oil was roughly proportionate to the decline in the dollar compared to the Euro and Pound Sterling yet for some reason our litre price for diesel went from 1.12 to 1.47 (roughly the same as Petrol/Gasoline which went from 1.12 to 1.45). The worst part is that a lot of the diesel used in Europe is a by product of natural gas production in Europe as far as I'm aware.

I know there were other factors involved but for me the largest factors were

• Abuse of the nominal barrel price without taking Dollar/Euro exchange rates into consideration
• Price gouging as a result of fears on oil supply
• In the case of diesel, recent carbon emission legislation makes it cheaper to tax diesel vehicles because of their lower emissions. In advance of the tax redress in this area oil companies in Ireland hiked diesel prices - before supply and demand kicked in

I know you guys in the states suffered on the oil prices but it really was more a case of the recently weak dollar than most will tell you. When a currency loses 40% of its value in 18 months of course imports will go up in price

[techieMoe]

Over here in the UK I am currently paying approximately $6.25 per US Gallon. It has recently dropped from around about $8.00.

Do our American cousins still feel like complaining

Yes, we do, because those of you over the pond have no idea what it's like living in a country that's ten times the size of yours and has no public transit. The state of Texas alone is easily twice the size of England, and we don't have the benefit of railways connecting all parts of it.

Seriously, most of Europe was built in a time before cars, so the streets are narrow and the cities are tightly packed. Most of America was settled post-railroad and post-automobile, so we often live and work 50 miles or more apart.

My point is, Americans don't have the luxury of choosing something other than our cars to get around. Thus high gas prices hit us harder. And to us, $4.00USD+ is high.

Lately though I've been getting a bit of a break at the pump. In Houston (which strangely enough has higher prices than surrounding parts of the state despite having 90% of the refineries) I've been pumping at about $2.29USD.

::EDIT:: By the way, nothing personal elija, gas prices are just a sensitive topic for me.

[coopstah13]

Agree with moe. Up here in new england most of the tech jobs are in massachusetts, and it costs so much money to live close to or in a city that these jobs are in, most people have to live elsewhere and drive there, hoping that the cost of fuel mitigates the extra cost of living in those cities. Not to mention there is hardly any public transportation outside of boston. I paid 2.65 for gas just the other day.

[elija]

For town and city dwellers I would agree with you Moe, but for us country dwellers the situation isn't that much different although the distances are smaller.

The nearest train station is about 35 miles away and the buses are a joke. There are more of them now to the point where we have stopped pointing and staring when we see one.

I work a 30 minute drive from where I live; a journey that would be impossible using public transport. I think that is terrible but there isn't the profit to be made running the route

[rokytnji]

I-10 Desert prices average about 2.49 a gallon.