Price of petrol
 

We have had everyone posting the price of gas in Canada. So how about people still in England tell us what they are paying for a litre of petrol there?

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Currently around 92p by us.

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Diesel is 90.9p and Petrol is 87.9p
Kept low due to the competition from the supermarkets. That equates to £4.12 a gallon for diesel and £3.99 a gallon for petrol....or in CAD$ it's just under $2 a litre for diesel.....
It costs me £65 or $140 to fill up our Citroen Synergie (a minivan). Do I grudge it? Damn right I do as most of it goes to this useless government....
:mad:
Graeme

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i pay 94p for deisel

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We were on a break up to the Isle of Skye in Scotland last weekend and paid wait for it - £1.05 a litre ! :eek:
10 bucks a gallon anyone ?

Anybody beat that ?

Phil

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The really awful thing is that oil, and to be fair most commodities and most money exchanges.....let scrap that...EVERYTHING... is based on the US Dollar value. On the world market each country buys its supply in US and sells it at local currency.

So why does the US pay $2.10 a gallon when the UK pays $7.50 or £4.18 per Gallon. Why does Canada pay $5.00 US for a gallon when the US are paying less than half of that.

(Assumming 4.546 litres to a gallon, and it costing $1.2 canadian to the US dollar. A BIG issue with gallons and litres and how they are costed no doubt. Just like decimilization in the 70s its all a bit of a con)

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Nice avatar - not sunny Lyneham by any chance???

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Partly because taxes differ in each of the countries and partly due to charging what the market will bear. Plus an American gallon is not the same as a UK gallon.

I'm sure 1gbp/l is just as painful as $1/l. What I dont understand is why the price of gas in Alberta is on a rollercoaster (four years ago we paid 54c/l) and has now almost doubled. Gas prices in the UK have not doubled in the same period.

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No, I am afraid not. It all depends on what you earn as a national average. The average houshold income in the UK is around 28,000 UK pounds (where is my pound sign gone to....bloody kids!). In London Ont it was just under $50,000 Canadian. So it makes a major difference.

P

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Clear up issues-

The Western governments meet with crude oil importers to discuss how much we minos will pay when it`s turned into Gas (Petrol).
Because they can tax by stealth, i.e. the higher the Gas price, the higher the tax percentage. Producers, Oil Companies and USA, UK and all other governments are funding the control of Iraq instability by this method.
We are all paying what the market will tolerate at the pumps.
Here in New Brunswick it has risen by 23% since last January !!!!! :confused:

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In GB, US and Canada expect the price of second-hand SUV's to drop. Especially in the UK. Exchange and Mart (UK) currently has over 700 X5's for sale.

Also, expect a migration of people from outlying suburbs back into towns and cities.

Only a sample of one, but I was talking to a couple who are knocking down an old house and building a new one over the back of us. They are moving back into the city from Bragg Creek (about 10m out of Calgary) and one reason is the increasing price of having to use the car all the time out there.

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If you can afford the depreciation on a new SUV, the cost of petrol isn't going to worry you too much.

Even at today's prices, petrol just isn't a large part of the cost of running a typical car until it's 4-5 years old and most of the depreciation is over.

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Nobody in the US is paying $2.10 per gallon now. My last trip down there the cheapest was $2.39 and most were higher than that. Now it is up to $2.60 in the same location. California is now averaging over $3 per gallon.

The price there has actually gone up more percentage wise than it has here in Canada. When I first moved up here in 2001, I was paying around $1 per gallon in Alabama and it was fluctuating between $0.55 and $0.75 per litre in Toronto and pretty much stayed that way until this year. It is now hoveriing around $1 per liter here, an increase of 60-80% over the old rates. Back in Alabama, my mother said she is lucky to get $2.45 per gallon which is an increase of almost 250%.