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Gas on the Garden State Parkway was $3.17 a gallon. Since the cheapest I saw at other Jersey stations was $3.25 a gallon, I'm sure the GSP stations will increase prices come Thursday.

 

Maybe Americans will come to there senses with the cars they choose to drive before gas hits $4.50-$5.00/gallon.

 

Ford and GM better get their acts together soon or all Americans will be driving cars from foreign based companies.

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OK, a few pages back, someone did a calculation to show just how much the UK is paying for fuel, and now that fuel is averaging at about £1.10 per litre, I'm gonna do the maths.

 

£1.10 multiplied by 3.78541178 = £4.16 per US gallon

 

At the current exchange rate which is $1.97 to £1, that $8.20 per US gallon.

 

Since your gallons are smaller than ours (16fl oz to 20 fl oz), here's how much it is for an imperial measure.

 

£1.10 multiplied by 4.546 = £5.00 per gallon.

 

So that's $9.85 per gallon.

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Are a lot of places moving to 15-cent differentials between the grades of gas? Most posts here are just reporting the regular price so Im just curious. I'd say a majority of the gas stations around here do that, which makes a lot of sense to me since $0.10 when gas was $1 a gallon is a 10% increase, but at $3.25 a gallon its just a little more than a 3% increase

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OK, a few pages back, someone did a calculation to show just how much the UK is paying for fuel, and now that fuel is averaging at about £1.10 per litre, I'm gonna do the maths........So that's $9.85 per gallon.

Yeah, I don't see why it's so painful for you guys, even with your price increases the amount you spend on fuel is still only a fairly small proportion of income compared to other countries.

 

I mean, in Europe the price of fuel is roughly 1.10 to 1.40 EUR/L

That works out to be in the range of $6.58 USD to $8.38 USD per Gallon....and you guys think you are being ripped off

 

In Australia its not so bad...we pay the equivalent of $5 USD per Gallon, but still quite a bit more than the US.

 

Who's down to vote for McCain?

 

He wants to get rid of gas taxes in the summer, and OMG... i'm totally down. =]

 

Its around 3.70-3.80 here i think.

 

To be honest, that sounds like a straight out irresponsible policy. It's going against the whole notion that people should be reducing fuel usage. It won't give people an incentive to drive more fuel efficient cars, nor will it encourage responsible usage of what is a finite resource.

And at the end of the day, an artificially cheaper price through reduced taxation increases demand, and if demand increases then oil companies increase the price, so it wont really help a whole lot.

To be honest, I think a better policy would be to increase the tax on fuel, and use the resulting funds to finance improvements to public transport.

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Who's down to vote for McCain?

 

He wants to get rid of gas taxes in the summer, and OMG... i'm totally down. =]

 

Its around 3.70-3.80 here i think.

 

To be honest, that sounds like a straight out irresponsible policy. It's going against the whole notion that people should be reducing fuel usage. It won't give people an incentive to drive more fuel efficient cars, nor will it encourage responsible usage of what is a finite resource.

And at the end of the day, an artificially cheaper price through reduced taxation increases demand, and if demand increases then oil companies increase the price, so it wont really help a whole lot.

To be honest, I think a better policy would be to increase the tax on fuel, and use the resulting funds to finance improvements to public transport.

 

 

Exactly - this is a short term idea to garner votes, not a solution.

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Here in SoCal, our taxes are about 36 cents per gallon if I recall correctly. So that'll bring our prices down to $3.50 or so for regular. Not much of a savings, plus a lot of lost tax revenue.

 

I'm all for developing new or improving existing technology to free us from oil dependency.

 

Eric

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If your car pumps out 220+ carbon emissions, you be £400 road tax per year in the UK, Combine that with new car Tax of £1,000 and fuel prices of £1.20 per litre. The UK is the biggest rip off.

 

USA and other countries pay Gas by gallon and not litre.

 

£1.20 a litre = $10.92 per gallon

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The UK is really hitting some big petrol prices at the moment. I think most other countries should raise the prices too to try and get people to cut down on fuel use. Oil isn't going to be around forever, and I want to get my fair share of driving before we are forced to stop.

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One thing I certainly don't miss now that I am in college (minus my car) is paying for gas. My car gets decent gas mileage, about 25-30mpg, and I really don't drive all that much, but gas is expensive. However, I feel that the U.S. really needs to raise gas prices. I know that is the opposite of what people want, but we are the largest users of gasoline, and the majority of people are oblivious to the consequences of waiting until the natural gas reserves are completely exhausted. Putting off any action to become a much more fuel efficient country until we have no other options is a terrible idea. Now is the only time that we can make a relatively smooth transition to alternative forms of energy. There are so many opportunities out there right now for green energy, and the government really needs to have some sort of incentive to begin using green fuels. Driving a Prius isn't going to save the world. Larger actions need to be taken if we, as people not individual countries, want to continue to survive on this planet.

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One thing I certainly don't miss now that I am in college (minus my car) is paying for gas. My car gets decent gas mileage, about 25-30mpg, and I really don't drive all that much, but gas is expensive. However, I feel that the U.S. really needs to raise gas prices. I know that is the opposite of what people want, but we are the largest users of gasoline, and the majority of people are oblivious to the consequences of waiting until the natural gas reserves are completely exhausted. Putting off any action to become a much more fuel efficient country until we have no other options is a terrible idea. Now is the only time that we can make a relatively smooth transition to alternative forms of energy. There are so many opportunities out there right now for green energy, and the government really needs to have some sort of incentive to begin using green fuels. Driving a Prius isn't going to save the world. Larger actions need to be taken if we, as people not individual countries, want to continue to survive on this planet.

 

I think a good action would be to raise the prices of gas, but then offer a greener, cheaper alternative such as BioFuel. Brazil are having luck with BioFuel, and I think more countries should adopt it. Where there were refineries etc, we can have BioFuel plants!

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I think gas prices are high enough already. Bio fuels would be nice, but most cars would not be easily adapted to them or cost effectively and people cannot afford gas and wouldnt' be able to afford to convert engines to bio fuel. I believe China uses more oil than America does and fuel demand has dropped in the US.

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I think gas prices are high enough already. Bio fuels would be nice, but most cars would not be easily adapted to them or cost effectively and people cannot afford gas and wouldnt' be able to afford to convert engines to bio fuel. I believe China uses more oil than America does and fuel demand has dropped in the US.

 

You can't really blame China too much though. 1/6 of the world live there, and it's going through it's industrial revolution. When the UK and America for example went through their revolution, they used a heck of a lot of fossil fuels. But it's hard to not use them. And remember, you need to go through an industrial revolution to be able to afford new technologies such as hydro-electric and geothermal power. And am I taking this too deeply?

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