Gas hit $4.00 per gallon =(

[Forest]

In cali and hawaii
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/...our_dollar_gas

Its 3.31 here in s. florida on avg

Will it go to 5.00?

[asl]

Already 8.50$ in Europe

[MichelleB]

Originally Posted by asl

Already 8.50$ in Europe

Holy hell, are you kidding me.

[pornguy]

Paying about 2:40 a gallon here in Cancun.

[asl]

Nope. One gallon is 3.79 liters and we pay 1.49 euros for one liter which means a gallon costs us 5,64 euros. At the terrible Euro/dollar conversion rate (1,56e for 1$) we pay ... 8,80$ per gallon.

The 8.50 calculation was made 3 weeks ago :/

[Forest]

Originally Posted by asl

Already 8.50$ in Europe

where in europe are you?

One of the major difference between gas prices here and there is the fact most eu contries I know of pay hefty gas taxes to subsidies the socialized health care and other public programs

Here they dont do that. I would gladly pay 8.00 a gallon if I got free health care. I would be saving myself a ton of money

[asl]

In Belgium. And for your info there is nothing like Free Healthcare here. As a freelancer, I pay 400euros / month for my social security :/

Our government takes a huge percentage on the petrol sales just like they do on alcohol or tobacco sales.

[Violetta]

2,4$ per LITRE here in Norway! Doesnt get more expencive than that!

[CDSmith]

Welcome to the club. We in Canada have been paying that for quite a while now.

It's hovering around $1.10/L right now, and is about to go up.
Times that by 3.79 Litres in a US gallon and we're well over $4

And we're one of the leading oil producers. Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are leading oil producers, but their people pay under 20 cents a gallon. Something seems out of whack with that.

[PainThing]

Yea, USA gas prices are still way cheap compared to other places in the world...

But, Bush gets his retirement wish... $5 a gallon soon ;)

[jalami]

Here it's already $4.30... and in Vancouver it's the equivalent of $4.66.

[Due]

That is cheap, dont forget the price will need to increase 5-15% per month to follow the drop in the value of the USD.
Guess it was needed anyway, jokes about russian rupples was getting pretty old

[atom]

still 3.10 here in minneapolis. Not too bad, still happy I work from home though.

[vinnie mcgee]

Originally Posted by CDSmith

Welcome to the club. We in Canada have been paying that for quite a while now.

It's hovering around $1.10/L right now, and is about to go up.
Times that by 3.79 Litres in a US gallon and we're well over $4

And we're one of the leading oil producers. Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are leading oil producers, but their people pay under 20 cents a gallon. Something seems out of whack with that.

it's about $1.40 a litre here in Australia, and will top $1.50 a litre within days

[Zuss]

It's a common misconception, that we just accept a slightly higher gas price in exchange for free Healthcare. We still have to pay for it. I, fo example have to pay 410$ each month. And that's the minimum.

[ADL Colin]

Great year for oil and gas investments.

[Sosa]

glad I hardly drive these days

[WebairGerard]

it's most likely only going to go higher. think my next car will be a hybrid.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by asl

Nope. One gallon is 3.79 liters and we pay 1.49 euros for one liter which means a gallon costs us 5,64 euros. At the terrible Euro/dollar conversion rate (1,56e for 1$) we pay ... 8,80$ per gallon.

The 8.50 calculation was made 3 weeks ago :/

can't relly compare.

A) Americans drive futher because our contry is bigger and more spread out and also we really don't have public transportation so we use more gas.

B) I think you have your math backwards. You really don't pay $8.80 a gallon. because you are not paying in $ you are paying in euros. See if the Euro and the $ are the same value and for every 100 euros you get paid you can get $100. Now your pay is the same yet now you can get $156. So really your 5.64 euros per gallon is the same as an American paying $3.66 which is not much higher than what people are paying now.

Europeans coming to America on vacation can get a very good deal now. For 650 euros they can get $1000. Where as before to get $1000 would have cost 1000 euros or more.

[asl]

Originally Posted by GatorB

B) I think you have your math backwards. You really don't pay $8.80 a gallon. because you are not paying in $ you are paying in euros. See if the Euro and the $ are the same value and for every 100 euros you get paid you can get $100. Now your pay is the same yet now you can get $156. So really your 5.64 euros per gallon is the same as an American paying $3.66 which is not much higher than what people are paying now.

Too bad I bill my members in USD and to have the same income in Euro I should have made a 17% increase of my sales in ... 2 Months !

So yes, people earning euro from their casual job will only see the oil price raising. For us,european webmasters with a majority of us customers billed in $, we have a dropdown in the euros we see on our account AND we see the prices go up everywhere in our european country

[teomaxxx]

so where are those GFY economists who tought that dollar devaluation is a great for US economy?

They better hide under rock, cause Average Joe is getting squezeed by devaluated dollar.

On the other side, you can thanks FED and its low interest rate policy for trying to save Wallstreet banks by squeezing Average Joe.

[CIVMatt]

Just paid 3.10 at Sams Club

[Satan]

Im paying 3.00 a gallon, i love the new truck it uses the E-85 and its about .50 cents a gallon cheaper here then the regular gas

[Zuss]

So really your 5.64 euros per gallon is the same as an American paying $3.66 which is not much higher than what people are paying now.

Not true if you're getting paid in USD, and I suspect that most European webmasters get paid in $.

[atom]

Originally Posted by Satan

Im paying 3.00 a gallon, i love the new truck it uses the E-85 and its about .50 cents a gallon cheaper here then the regular gas

From my understanding though E85 gets worse MPG so it all evens out in the end.

[Blazed]

Originally Posted by GatorB

can't relly compare.

A) Americans drive futher because our contry is bigger and more spread out and also we really don't have public transportation so we use more gas.

B) I think you have your math backwards. You really don't pay $8.80 a gallon. because you are not paying in $ you are paying in euros. See if the Euro and the $ are the same value and for every 100 euros you get paid you can get $100. Now your pay is the same yet now you can get $156. So really your 5.64 euros per gallon is the same as an American paying $3.66 which is not much higher than what people are paying now.


Europeans coming to America on vacation can get a very good deal now. For 650 euros they can get $1000. Where as before to get $1000 would have cost 1000 euros or more.

The average american is thought to drive 12,000 miles/year, the average in the uk is thought to be 10,000, not really such a huge difference and im sure its similar for most or europe.

And probably 99% of people on this forum wherever they are from get paid in $ so to say he is paying $9 a gallon is relevant, even if it is 6 euros.

[Fap]

its coming up close in NY..

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by asl

Too bad I bill my members in USD and to have the same income in Euro I should have made a 17% increase of my sales in ... 2 Months !

So yes, people earning euro from their casual job will only see the oil price raising. For us,european webmasters with a majority of us customers billed in $, we have a dropdown in the euros we see on our account AND we see the prices go up everywhere in our european country

what you are talking about has ZILCH to do with the price of gas especially for the what 600-700 million euopeans that get paid in Euros.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by Blazed

The average american is thought to drive 12,000 miles/year, the average in the uk is thought to be 10,000, not really such a huge difference and im sure its similar for most or europe.

And probably 99% of people on this forum wherever they are from get paid in $ so to say he is paying $9 a gallon is relevant, even if it is 6 euros.

WRONG.

Let's compare 2 people. Say both use the same amount of gas. Say 500 gallons a year. Both have the same income.

Person A- American makes $40,000 a year. Say gas goes up to $3.60 a gallon. That's $1800 a year or 4.5% of his yearly income.

Person B-Eurpoean makes $40,000 a year that's 62,400 Euros. Pays 5.64 Euros per gallon. That's 2800 euros or 4.49% of his yealry income. Seems about that same to me.



math is FUN!

[GAMEFINEST]

3.50 here ....

[Roald]

Originally Posted by GatorB

...
Person B-Eurpoean makes $40,000 a year that's 62,400 Euros.

...

math is FUN!

Math is fun indeed, cause isn't that more like 26.000 euros ;))

[Peaches]

Hawaii has always been high because of the costs to get the gas to them. California, IIRC, has higher standards on gas which could account for the higher prices. What's even more interesting is how high Alaska is even with all their oil production - because they don't have access to processing plants, everything still needs to be shipped in. Also note that state taxes count for a lot of the price.

Yesterday in the Atlanta burbs it was $3.19 a gallon for regular - up here in the hills it's $3.29.

We still have it VERY cheap compared to many other countries in the world. Including the Northern State of Canada ;)

[TidalWave]

paying $3.75/gallon for the last 2 weeks here

[Ron Bennett]

Originally Posted by Satan

Im paying 3.00 a gallon, i love the new truck it uses the E-85 and its about .50 cents a gallon cheaper here then the regular gas

A gallon of E-85 contains only about 70% of the energy of a gallon of regular gasoline. So one has to take that into account when comparing prices (ie. paying $3.00 for E-85 is way too much!) because (as another poster pointed out) MPG is much worse with E-85.

Another issue, that's virtually never mentioned, is the added wear on the engine from using E-85. Even E-85 compatible engines (most these days) are likely not totally protected from the corrosive damage that E-85 can inflict on parts.

Ron

[asl]

Originally Posted by QuaShe

Math is fun indeed, cause isn't that more like 26.000 euros ;))

Yeah and that makes like 11% of the yearly income of an average european.

[farkedup]

3.4/gallon of gas and my wife and I have put over 24k miles on our civic hybrid in the past 6mnths! With the kind of driving we do this seriously sucks. She works 2 jobs, one of them is 66mi ONE way and the other is 40mi ONE WAY and she works 6 nights a week for 12 hours each and then I use that car during the day, our other car sees like 500 miles/mnth and is only driven when the main car is gone LOL

[CDSmith]

Originally Posted by GatorB

WRONG.

Let's compare 2 people. Say both use the same amount of gas. Say 500 gallons a year. Both have the same income.

Person A- American makes $40,000 a year. Say gas goes up to $3.60 a gallon. That's $1800 a year or 4.5% of his yearly income.

Person B-Eurpoean makes $40,000 a year that's 62,400 Euros. Pays 5.64 Euros per gallon. That's 2800 euros or 4.49% of his yealry income. Seems about that same to me.



math is FUN!

You know, if you're going to blast "WRONG" in someone's face (like an idiot), you really should have your own shit straight.

$40K USD as of today = 25,532 Euros.

[PINOs]

u$s 3.15 in Argentina

[Honez]

I paid $3.19 yesterday in Phoenix. I am moving in a couple of weeks to a house where everything is much closer. I am going to be riding my bike and walking a lot more.

[Elli]

gasbuddy.com is your friend

[SifuE]

I live in Scottsdale, an it is much worse in other places yes! But fuck Cmon now when is the madness going to fucking stop?

[Zuzana Designs]

I just filled up and it was 3.66 here in NC

[Satan]

Originally Posted by atom

From my understanding though E85 gets worse MPG so it all evens out in the end.

I filled the tank up wioth regular gas and got 334 miles out of it before the light turned on, I then filled it up with E-85 and got 320 miles out of the tank, so if i lose 14 miles and save 7 bucks from each fill I am happy

[Satan]

Originally Posted by Ron Bennett

A gallon of E-85 contains only about 70% of the energy of a gallon of regular gasoline. So one has to take that into account when comparing prices (ie. paying $3.00 for E-85 is way too much!) because (as another poster pointed out) MPG is much worse with E-85.

Another issue, that's virtually never mentioned, is the added wear on the engine from using E-85. Even E-85 compatible engines (most these days) are likely not totally protected from the corrosive damage that E-85 can inflict on parts.

Ron

Its a two year lease, i can care less what happens to the engine after that

[Sid70]

1 littre is $1,10 so is it about $4,40 per gallon?

[Mr Pheer]

I'll be riding my motorcycle a whole lot more.

45mpg on my bike, 12mpg in my 4x4 truck

even though I only fill my truck up once a month and it only has 20k miles on it in the 2 1/2 years that I've owned it, why pay that much for gas.. its stupid.

[woj]

Originally Posted by GatorB

B) I think you have your math backwards. You really don't pay $8.80 a gallon. because you are not paying in $ you are paying in euros. See if the Euro and the $ are the same value and for every 100 euros you get paid you can get $100. Now your pay is the same yet now you can get $156. So really your 5.64 euros per gallon is the same as an American paying $3.66 which is not much higher than what people are paying now.

That's some f'ed up logic there, no matter how you spin it, gas in europe costs $8.80... and theorizing what if 100 euros were to equal 100 usd, is pretty flawed too, as the price of gas already takes that into account... if usd was stronger, then price of oil, and thus gas would be cheaper too...

[s9ann0]

thats great news! roll on $5 / gallon

Its about time people stop driving Hummers and F150's to do their shopping

I saw my first US smart car the other day, expect to see more of these.

[D Ghost]

it's inevitable

[bDok]

awesome. I can't wait until 5 dollars!