9.07 eurocent per kw/h for gas here :O:

the price for petrol is like Schroeder said

Roughly, $3.30/gal. 87.

I got it for $3.17 regular today Growler. That was over here in Glen Burnout, MD.

Nice! Not bad for GB.

The state is looking to jack the tax on gas well. Somewhere around .10 cent per gallon.

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:yeah:

I just paid $3.58/gal for premium today. Haven't look at regular prices in a few years since our euro-cars want premium.

Payed 3.59 for 87 octane (IE, the cheap ****) a couple days ago here in good ole "cantaffordya". (california)

I noticed the diesal pump right next to the 87 octane was at 4.00 a gallon. Food prices will increase shortly.

€ 1,29 per liter

thats (doing math :88)) about 6,75 USD per gallon

Only slightly cheaper than here in the UK.

You know, it's well known and established that the UK pay much more for their gas/mogas/petrol (whatever you want to call it), then Americans do. But the question I have is, how far does the Average joe over there drive on their daily commute to work? DO they drive to work at all, or take some form of mass transit?

In most of the US, this is no mass transit system to speak of. If you want to get to work, you must drive yourself there. The average Joe here (in california at least) drives anywhere between 20 to 50 miles to work, or 40 to 100 miles per day round trip, depending on where they live.

3.25 here in windy (VERY WINDY!) Pittston Pennsylvania

Thats regular btw

That's getting a standard here too.

A few things about public transportation. Busses are cost effective.

All other methods? Subsidized more per seat-mile than cars (via road/highway subsidy).

No one wants to ride a bus, more might find trains cool, but they all lose money (not just in the US—it became clear in our high speed rail discussion that HSR in Germany was subsidized by the government—the parent company profits because commercial rail (hauling freight) IS very profitable.

The light rail in LA is so cost ineffective that all the lower income riders could be given a new Prius every 5 years, and have all costs associated with operating it paid for, and LA would still save money. Japan's rail system is also a known problem in terms of cost.

Nice idea, but it needs to at least break even with fares including a subsidy no greater than that given to roads per seat-mile traveled.

The US is also so spread out that public transport is very difficult. Take the train from Santa Fe to work in ABQ, and you then need to get from one of the 2 train stations to everywhere else—and the bulk of town is miles away at right angles from the rail line (and way too steep for trains).

$3.75 and climbing daily.

And, completely missing the joke, he laughs for all the wrong reasons.

Scary, saying it could go 4-$5 per gallon in a few months. The US, greatest nation in the world with no energy policy.:shifty:

Personaly, im amazed it hadn't hit 5 yet. If i remember correctly It hit 4 dollars already a few years back. Or at least it seemed to. I tend to round upwards with my expenditures and round down my income.

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Oil companies can pretty much charge whatever they want, and we'll pay it. We always do. It's not like we have a choice.

~$3.39:shifty: