Gas prices

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Please don't cry about gas money, here in France, the gallon is around $6...
Same thing for Germany...


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The price of fuel affects getting goods delivered to markets and has an affect on the prices of those goods more than personal transportation. Raise fuel cost, everything else goes up in price too.
Inflation, or loss of profit to the goods merchant.
So think about driving distances necessary to deliver goods.
Paris to Munich is only about as far as Santa Monica California to Tucson Arizona... The next State to the East.
There's about 5 more of those drives between there and New York!

How much of the French or UK gallon is for taxes and not the price or cost of the gas??

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1 liter of 98 octane 2.29 Euros right now. I´ve filled up about half an hour ago. That´s about US$ 11.05 a gallon.
(I have to take the good stuff because of my 11:1 cr...)
100 octane is even more.
You´re very right about the distances in Europe compared to the US. Most people have less than 8 miles to go to work around here.
And you´ve asked for the taxes: 81% of the gas price are taxes...

 

The cheap stuff here in hope arkansas at the cheapest gas station is $1.80 for what I have to put in my car is about $2.00. ****s to bad our oil baron pres won't do something about this.

 

The European economy might be taking high fuel costs into account, but my economy doesn't...!

 

varies from .85 to 2.05 with in an hours drive.

of course the .85 is the new corn gas being in iowa an all, other wise cheapest is a 1.80 on the res a little south oh here

so averaging about 1.85

 

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The cheap stuff here in hope arkansas at the cheapest gas station is $1.80 for what I have to put in my car is about $2.00. ****s to bad our oil baron pres won't do something about this.

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You're in one of the "cheap" swing states. It's $2.359 at the discount "Von's" station at the end of my block.
That's the cheapest station around here by at least a nickle too.

 

Back in the 70s in the so-called "Oil Shortage" guys were building "street Rods" with smaller engines to beat the cost of actually driving their cars.
Are we headed that way again?
Personally. I tonk after a fashion it has to do more with wind resistance and how much weight is lugged around. Less weight = better mileage.
chopped tops = less wind resistance

Also an in dash vacuum guage can help find the "sweet spot" for your engines best mileage rpm or gearing.

 

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varies from .85 to 2.05 with in an hours drive.

of course the .85 is the new corn gas being in iowa an all, other wise cheapest is a 1.80 on the res a little south oh here

so averaging about 1.85

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Are you talking E85? Hell if I could get it here I'd runit in a heart beat. A little timing a little jetting and voila..

oh and $1.86 for 87 at my place, $1.91 in town.

 

Price for 87 (the "cheap" stuff...) shot up overnight this week from 2.47 to 2.55. That same day I found a full-serve gas station (Cahill's Gas & Oil, cool ol' fashioned fillup place) still selling it @ 2.47, and out of sheer relief (for that, and that they'd actually take my floating check), I told them about the other prices. So now THEY're up, too, now. Me and my mouth.

 

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1 liter of 98 octane 2.29 Euros right now

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Baumi - that sounds hi - not that I doubt you, but I was in Stuttgart just 6 wks ago & it didn't cost anywhere near that. I don't recall exact prices, but I want to say it was much, much less than that - like 1.00 euro or so. I travel to Stuttgart a lot & don't remember it being much more than that. Does it vary from area to area in Germany?

Here in the UK it seems to be about £0.82/l which works out to approx $5.60/US gal - a huge portion of it is taxes (something on the order of 80%). The tax is different though - where most of our tax in the states is "fixed" pennies on the gallon, so when oil goes up, gas goes up in a direct relationship, here it's a percentage on the price, so when oil goes up, gas goes up exponentially.

 

Its not so much the price of the stuff but how much you use, my monthly gas expenditure through the summer months is roughly £220 thats about $375 a month & it ****s, a man has still got to eat!!

 

Yeah, but now you don't have 6 carbs feeding a hungry small block being flogged to death! Should be a little easier...

 

Hahaha i was thinkin the same......but wait till you see whats going on the flatty....you gonna laugh your *** off! & of course i will show that flathead some respect & drive it like true gentleman......who stole the ****er!!

 

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damn C9 when did you move to Arizona?


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Ahnold made me leave . . . not really, just another middle cl*** Californian who got tired of the California ********.
I've read in the paper that the middle cl*** is leaving California in droves.
Fueled by the tremendous prices for real estate coupled with the craziness that California is famous for.

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The good doctor has a point about the "so-called oil shortage" from past times.

Since most of our cars are Saturday Night Specials anyway and don't get driven much for the most part another $3. - $5. in gas is not gonna hurt.

 

around $1.10 litre for premium so $4.40 gal

smiles per miles is all that counts...

 

Its like $2.20 something round here. But I don’t really care. I just got a new job for a LOT more $$$$ five miles from my house. It was 25 miles each way before and my boss was a ****.

 

in co is 1.95 for 87 and like 2.15 for the good stuff.
i think they should develop a way to run motors on methanol but still be 100% streetable, even for a 16 yr old chick whos been drivin for 3 months. If you m*** produce methanol at the same level of gasoline the price per gallon would go down and since its a man made fuel it would be renewable. It is much more efficient compared to gasoline too.

 

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oh, about $6.80 per US gallon at the moment...

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Remember, there's only 3.7 litres in a US gallon, so its really 'only' about $5.50 a gallon

And the government gets about $5.00 of that in ****in' tax!

 

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but wait till you see whats going on the flatty....you gonna laugh your *** off!

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You already told me your top secret plans! I think it'll be cool...

 

In TN. .....The lowest I've seen it is $1.84! But I use the High grade stuff.so About 2.04 a gallon!!

 

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but wait till you see whats going on the flatty....you gonna laugh your *** off!

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You already told me your top secret plans! I think it'll be cool...



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***uming it'll run that is.....gonna give it a go!

 

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but wait till you see whats going on the flatty....you gonna laugh your *** off!

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You already told me your top secret plans! I think it'll be cool...



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***uming it'll run that is.....gonna give it a go!

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Ooh ooh, tell me tell me tell me

 

San Diego is $2.****inmuch. I stopped watching fuel costs. I now pull up to the pump at the local arco always has been the cehapest in the neighborhood for the last 2 years. I just pump and go dont look at the cost at all. to godamn depressing. The pay scale is also very low here in San diego compared to other places through out the state but the gas prices seem to be up there in the top ten highest. also cost of living has increased and pay has not. What the **** is that all about.

 

We should sell our cars and buy Volkswagons.

Mootz

 

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but wait till you see whats going on the flatty....you gonna laugh your *** off!

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You already told me your top secret plans! I think it'll be cool...



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***uming it'll run that is.....gonna give it a go!

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Ooh ooh, tell me tell me tell me

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I'm afraid you'll have to wait on this one, but i will tell ya they were only used from '36-'38 & the guys selling the last two i bought commented "what the hell do you want them for"
Keeping this post on its topic i should be able to lean the mixture right off to save on fuel.

 

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1 liter of 98 octane 2.29 Euros right now

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Baumi - that sounds hi - not that I doubt you, but I was in Stuttgart just 6 wks ago & it didn't cost anywhere near that. I don't recall exact prices, but I want to say it was much, much less than that - like 1.00 euro or so. I travel to Stuttgart a lot & don't remember it being much more than that. Does it vary from area to area in Germany?




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You´re right! I´ve re-read my post and noticed my mistype. It´s 1.29Euros a liter not 2.29. Sorry.

 

Central Washington .. $1.98 'bout the cheapest for reg

 

here in nova scotia it is about 4.50 a gallon around a 1.00 a litre.
anybody put a steam engine in a 33 ford

 

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You´re right! I´ve re-read my post and noticed my mistype. It´s 1.29Euros a liter not 2.29.

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Yeah, but that's still about $5.90/US Gal!!!

 

Last Monday I paid $1.95 for #2 Diesel.

Last Night I paid $2.05 at the SAME EXACT PUMP!

This is in Corpus Christi, TX...I don't understand it...this area is overwhelmed with oil & gas refineries and we're still expensive....******** I tell you!

Atleast my 320hp/900lbft turbo diesel pickup gets 23mpg

 

the price now adjusted for inflation is almost the same as in the sixties.

i can remeber "gas wars" when iwas groawing up and the price of regular got to 19.9 per gallon! down from about 28.9.


jerry