the price of gas

Spotnick wrote: I paid 1.06$ per liter this week... I know this is business as usual in Europe, but damn it!! it was at 62 cents 2 years ago... :(

after performing currency and metric conversions, you win. or lose, i suppose.

we do moan a lot about the price of gas in this country. what is it, 500 quid a litre in the UK now?

when i rented a car in jordan in 2000 petrol was practically free, and they don't even produce it--they must have some deal with the saudis. i also saw a lot of dodgy, ancient iraqi tankers trolling the highways. the tour book suggested passing them as soon as possible, since because of the sanctions iraq had no money to fix the tankers so they had a tendency to blow their tires, tip over and explode. you'd see remnants by the side of the road. i bet they sold their gas for pennies!

Spotnick wrote: I paid 1.06$ per liter this week... I know this is business as usual in Europe, but damn it!! it was at 62 cents 2 years ago... :(

It's over a dollar in Montreal?? It's 99.2 cents per litre in Toronto. I think I'll crap my pants if it goes over the dollar mark. (I know it's inevitable, but still, $1 seems outrageous.)

I don't know how to do the conversions, but around my part of the country, the average price of gas is $2.86 per gallon. I guess I feel kind of lucky that I don't have my permit yet, since the price of public transportation doesn't seem so bad anymore.

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Don't worry , BUSH will Bomb some more middle eastern countries to bring the proce down

$2.62 for premium. Notice that when gas prices jump drasticically that the quality of gas gets shitty?

"when i rented a car in jordan in 2000 " (Agent Wood)

Ah Jordan.... did you like it?.I was there back in 1996.Petra and Wadi Rum.Loved that desert landscape at Wadi.

Spotnick wrote: I paid 1.06$ per liter this week... I know this is business as usual in Europe, but damn it!! it was at 62 cents 2 years ago... :(

I paid 1,29 Euros per liter yesterday...

I walked yesterday. Of course, if I had any money, I'd be burning up the atmosphere like the rest of you lot.

Digital Mike Binoche wrote: Don't worry , BUSH will Bomb some more middle eastern countries to bring the proce down

But the more he bombs, the more it seems to go UP.

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I never thought i would see the day, where gas is cheaper in nyc then the rest of america.

Johnny wrote: "when i rented a car in jordan in 2000 " (Agent Wood)

Ah Jordan.... did you like it?.I was there back in 1996.Petra and Wadi Rum.Loved that desert landscape at Wadi.

petra is possibly the most amazing place on earth. i've never seen anything like it and i doubt i ever will.

You don't want to live in Holland. I paid 1.345 Euro / L today.

Please tell me that somewhere else in Europe it's more expensive. That would really make me feel a little bit better.

i accidentally put the special stuff in my car the other day (instead of cheap stuff) and it was £0.89/l Goddam it! as for it's equivalent in dollars or euros - buggered if i know

In Sweden, 1 litre of gas costs €1.40, or $2.

it's about $2.29 a gallon in the orlando area, which would make it just over 50 cents/liter. and these are 'sky high' prices.

i think we should have to pay more, then we could focus more on public transportation.

paid $2.489 this saturday for regular - almost $35 to fill the tank - and it'll only last me 2-3 days

Currently we pay about $1.15 AUD per liter, which is about 30 cents dearer than about a year ago. This works out to about $1 US a liter at our dollar being about 77 us cents.

It's a shame they don't reinvest fuel tax in providing us with renewable energy sources, instead they spend it on bombing other countries in illegal wars!

84.9p per litre is the cheapest around here, which is curently $1.53.

digitalwaters wrote: It's a shame they don't reinvest fuel tax in providing us with renewable energy sources, instead they spend it on bombing other countries in illegal wars!

Please define "illegal" in this context.

AgentWood wrote: .

i think we should have to pay more, then we could focus more on public transportation.

or................

foucs more on home grown renewable bio-fuels. It would help the consumer. It would help the American Farmer. And, it would help with national security.

bio fuels hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA. OK ILL STOP there is no way that bio fuels could ever ever cope with the demand for fuel full stop. could you imagine the amount of land needed just to cope with todays fuel crisis,and the effect that it will have on the enviroment never mind what is waiting around the corner with india and china now becoming major economies with consumers all wanting what we have,cars,motorbikes,trucks ect ect. its time for a total rethink on transport,work ethics and enviromental morality in general. one instance i can point out is the claim that "work from home" will help the enviroment,maybe but i doubt it,many of my neighbours do so but lo and behold they still have 2 cars,maybe that is the answer 1 car per household,of course then the murder rate will go up over whos having the car and when. its hydrogen,or electric cars and pronto or we are all doomed im afraid.

Tex wrote:

AgentWood wrote: .

i think we should have to pay more, then we could focus more on public transportation.

or................

foucs more on home grown renewable bio-fuels. It would help the consumer. It would help the American Farmer. And, it would help with national security.

We agree on something?

Of course, "The American Farmer" could mean the American Family Farm, or more likely, a trans-national corporate agribusiness. Are we talking about helping the family farmer stay in business? Or the transnational corporate agribusiness? If we're talking about helping the latter, they don't need any more "help," they've grown fat enough manipulating public policy to help themselves. Once they get their hooks in transportation policy, we'll NEVER shift to an ecologically sound transportation system. They'd cut down the last rainforests to grow soy beans for biofuels, all the while telling us how ecological their product is.

mike powell wrote: bio fuels hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA. OK ILL STOP there is no way that bio fuels could ever ever cope with the demand for fuel full stop. could you imagine the amount of land needed just to cope with todays fuel crisis,and the effect that it will have on the enviroment never mind what is waiting around the corner with india and china now becoming major economies with consumers all wanting what we have,cars,motorbikes,trucks ect ect. its time for a total rethink on transport,work ethics and enviromental morality in general. one instance i can point out is the claim that "work from home" will help the enviroment,maybe but i doubt it,many of my neighbours do so but lo and behold they still have 2 cars,maybe that is the answer 1 car per household,of course then the murder rate will go up over whos having the car and when. its hydrogen,or electric cars and pronto or we are all doomed im afraid.

And of course, Mike's right as well. Trying to provide biuofuels for every human being who wants to drive solo (which is pretty much every human being, given the chance) is an ecological disaster waiting to unfold.

But biofuels are a better interim measure than gasoline, at least climatologically, and if seen as an interim measure while we build an ecologically sound long-term transportation system, whatever that might be-- public transportaion networks, land use planning that doesn't make automobile use a necessity, ecologically sound power sources-- then biofuels are definitely what we need to be shifting to today. But only for today.

Then there're these guys. Make it a biodiesel hybrid and you're on the right track.

mike powell wrote: bio fuels hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA. OK ILL STOP there is no way that bio fuels could ever ever cope with the demand for fuel full stop. could you imagine the amount of land needed just to cope with todays fuel crisis,and the effect that it will have on the enviroment never mind what is waiting around the corner with india and china now becoming major economies with consumers all wanting what we have,cars,motorbikes,trucks ect ect. its time for a total rethink on transport,work ethics and enviromental morality in general. one instance i can point out is the claim that "work from home" will help the enviroment,maybe but i doubt it,many of my neighbours do so but lo and behold they still have 2 cars,maybe that is the answer 1 car per household,of course then the murder rate will go up over whos having the car and when. its hydrogen,or electric cars and pronto or we are all doomed im afraid.

Maybe you guys don't have the land, but we certainly do. And, the whole point of going to bio-fuels would be to let China and India try their hands at Middle East foreign policy for a few decades.