Featured Pump prices rising in UK

Give our fellas abroad the current price per US gallon, just for fun...

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/2016_09_12_oil_prices_es95.pdf
(september 16th)

Portugal - Gasoline (95 RON = premium) - October 3rd
1,374eur/liter or 5,2eur/USgal = 5.72 USD/USgal

 

I last filled up for $1.89/gal or about 0.45 euro/liter in Austin. Given that my city has had rapid population growth and the federal and state government don't want to spend to improve the roads. I would much rather have improved roads, lower payroll taxes and higher oil taxes.

I know that much of the extra europeans pay gets wasted. Hopefully there is something in between ;-)

 

Living in Texas, it's a time honored tradition to both complain bitterly about paying Taxes and our crappy roads, without seeing the connection between those two

 

Our prices can go up/down by a nickel (Canadian) over the course of a day or two, no one bat's an eye. What that on a tank, a buck or two at the most.

 

Lets recall that the UK voted to Brexit, the pound tanked (I was in planing to exchange dollars for pounds the day after the Brexit vote. I decided to wait a few days. Thanks.) and there are multiple litres per gallon.

Gas has risen in my state about 10% over the last month or so. Weather and a pipeline rupture disrupting supplies thus bringing additional costs for the transport of fuels to the pumps. Still lots cheaper than in the UK.

Different tax regimes but also vastly different benefits (free education, free medical, etc).

Now lets see if OPEC can agree to output cuts. One day the countries that matter do and the next they don't. But if they do ....

 

That would be $1.90 (Canadian) per liter for us. Ours is currently around $1.25, so you're paying around 50% more.

 

i think we're up to $2.07 or so.

 

the strange thing is, some of us would like higher gas taxes to promote lower fuel usage, alt fuel usage and better roads and bridges. but of course, politicians will have none of that.

 

I'm not laughing. I was in Europe during the Brexit vote. This is what I remember. I flew into Southend airport and took public transportation into London to my hotel. When my trip was over, I took public transportation to Gatwick airport. Both were about an hour long trip that cost me less than $10.

San Francisco also has 3 airports. 2 are connected well to public transportation. The furthest one is not. If I took public transportation from the two well connected airports, it would take double the time as driving (2+ hours) to get home and cost the same as taking a taxi ($50+ for 2).

Obviously, if I lived closer to a station, the cost and time would be significantly lower and that's the point. The rest of the world get fantastic public transportation for higher gas prices. I would much rather have higher gas prices so that there are fewer behemoths on the road and take public transportation to work some don't need to have 2 cars.

 

copley plaza, nice place. i hope you enjoyed the city. we were just in new york, twice as expensive.

 

brutal summer, and fall. high humidity was the real killer. we set a record for stretches of a/c use.