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Thread: Just put £5 of Petrol in my car and the Empty Light is still on...... |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It had to happen one day.
----------------------------------------Not using the car over the next few days but I was running on fumes so I bunged £5's worth in at the laughingly advertised "Everyday low fuel prices" Tesco's Garage. I got 5.16 Litres for my fiver (My Government got £3.50 of it  )The empty light is still on!!!! You are sitting there reading this thinking that that Dave Autumns must have some huge gas guzzling monster car that'll be why, but no... It's a Peugeot 206 1.4Litre from the soon to be closed Ryton Plant in Coventry. (The British Detroit) n.b. those figures are £'s not $'s 96.9 pence per litre = £3.67 per American Gallon = $6.54 per American Gallon at today's exchange rates. A £1 per litre is back on the cards. Soon you will be able to arrange a mortgage for a tankful of Petrol  Dave  |
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Not quite as bad but almost in Eastern Canada. Current price is 1.17 a litre. For the Yanks 4.54 litres= 1 Imperial Gallon or 5.31 a Gallon Canadian.
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It can also be worse some closer to the UK. The standard 95octane (my car likes 98octane better, but hey) costs around 1.48 Eur at the moment.
----------------------------------------According to the current exchange rates, that's 1.02 UK Pounds  .That's 1.82 USDollar for 1 litre or 6.90 dollars for 1 (US) Gallon. Strange that you don't hear a lot of it anymore. When hurricane Katrina hit last winter, it was in the news every day. Now the prices are as high as they were back then and now it's just mentioned as if it is nothing special. And I didn't even mention all the taxes you have to pay for driving your car in The Netherlands. For the money of a 3-series BMW you'll get a 5-series BMW with the same engine in Germany or Belgium. But as long as I'm still working for the Oil/Gas industry, I can't complain I guess.   |
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Former Member
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Sorry guys. I know gas prices in Europe sucks big time. Here in Kentucky today is $2.95 per gallon. Problem is my truck tank is 21 gallons. Do the math.
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$2.92 here in WISCONSIN and rising.
$2.95 for Diesel. Talking over $3.00 dollars a gallon by MAY  Got rid of my truck that was 35 gallons to fill it. Sad the prices are getting so far out of hand for us all. Where will it stop? When will it stop? Soon we will all be walking at these prices. All these years wasted on not making a car better on gas. Even some of the electric/gas cars mileage could be better. |
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Charles Chan
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The average daytime price in the Greater Toronto Area is $1.109 Can./Litre and droped down to $0.999 Can./Litre this evening... Just filled up about 3 hours ago for $47.00 Can.
---------------------------------------- Average last week was around $40.00 for a fill-up when I fill up in the evenings... it was $0.895
For Laura
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Former Member
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Ayup Charles.... One reason I have become a Border Runner and wander into Ontario to gas up... Lower taxes.
Quebec has a way of adding surcharges to pay for follies. Greater Montreal has a 2.5 a litre surcharge to pay for public transit. But Greater Montreal gets no benefit of Public Transportation. We still have the 25 cents a package of cigs tax to pay for the Big Owe from the 1967 Olympic Follies.... |
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David Autumns
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Another rich seam for a thread discovered
---------------------------------------- Here are the alledged reasons http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/pro...e=20060421&ID=5658554 but as only £1.50 of that fiver (after tax) went to paying for the petrol and to paying for the wages of the petrol station staff (who then pay tax on those wages) and the wages of the tanker driver who brought the fuel to the garage (who then pays tax on those wages) and the wages of the refinery workers (who then pay tax on those wages) and then into the profits of the oil company (who then pay tax on those profits) + I've already paid the tax so that I am left with that fiver to buy the petrol in the first place.  me thinks it's not the $72 a barrel that is really making the difference here, just a hunch I've got  [Edit 3 times, last edit by David Autumns at Apr 21, 2006 7:39:35 AM] |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It may be sad for companies like GM, Ford, Daimler/Chrystler but I'm actually glad that more and more americans discover the great Japanese makes like Honda/Acura, Toyota/Lexus, Nissan/Infiniti, ..., ... They make cars which are way more fuel efficient than all the good old American V8's and V6's.
----------------------------------------If all Americans were going to keep driving those big engines, I believe the prices would rise even higher! The only sad part is the sound of a 4-cylinder engine. I like the sould of a big V8 better. (unless it's my fuel-efficient VTEC revving @ 8500 rpm  ) |
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