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:

In Norway the prices are around 13 NOK / litre = 9 USD/gal, almost all of it taxes.

That's slovenian prices. Probibly the highest around if you take the an average pay into account. The UK and Scandinavia have higher prices, but people there earn almost tripple what we do.

But no one here drives more than 50 km (30miles) to work. Still, everyone drives anywhere since the public transit is a joke

Don't forget the government here adds 75% fuel duty to our petrol prices.

You are right, that is a very relevant parameter. I suggest we start using the big mac index from now on!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_mac_index

A gallon of fuel in Norway costs around 1 big mac!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...MacCroatia.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BigMacCroatia.jpg

Now, if we could get one of those things to actually BE the fuel - our cars'd never need gas again.




Until they dropped dead of clogged fuel injectors.