… In Saudi Arabia, FoxNews reports. So, the Saudis now will be paying about 60 U.S. cents a gallon.
In Beaverton (Oregon, USA), I’m paying $2.97 a gallon, today. That’s not fair 
How much are you paying?
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It’s £0.93/litre here in London, so that’s $3.52 a gallon, around-about. I thought there was more of a difference previously, that’s quite suprising to see the price rising quite some over the pond.
May 1st, 2006, at 12:57 pm #Ahh, you forgot about the conversion from pounds to dollars making it really about $6.44 US dollars per gallon.
May 1st, 2006, at 1:16 pm #Wow, I thought I’d factored that in, must have slipped. Thank god I don’t actually use the car now days with congestion charge being £8 a day to drive down the road.
May 1st, 2006, at 1:19 pm #So, in London, you’re paying approximately double as much as what we’re paying for gas here in the US (on average), wow! I hope you’re making double as much as we’re making here too.
Richard, I totally understand why you do not use the car. Very soon I will have to stop using my SUV and start working from home more often.
May 1st, 2006, at 1:42 pm #It’s simple, cut the gas taxes, build more refineries, completely get rid of so many gas regulations, so we can have higher quantities.
Stop driving so much…
remember Supply and Demand…
Well our demand is at a much higher level, and we’ve always been anti-oil business, so this is the consequences of our stupidity…
May 1st, 2006, at 2:00 pm #Eddie,
In France, we pay 1.4€ (around 1.6$) per liter (should be around 6$ per gallon).
And, as reply to your comment, no, we’re not paid 2 times more than you are (me thinks).
rgds
May 1st, 2006, at 2:30 pm #I think you’re also forgetting that US gallons are smaller than UK gallons in that conversion.
Here in California we’re paying about $3.20 for regular, $3.50 for premium.
For once I find myself in agreement with Craig: drive less - and drive more economical cars!
May 1st, 2006, at 4:57 pm #Here in Hawaii the average price in Honolulu is $3.40/gallon. Pretty soon I think that I will just stay on the north shore and work from home! Gas prices are crazy:(
May 1st, 2006, at 7:32 pm #If the US eliminates the gas tax involved and lowers the environmental standards to a low level, prices would probably be around 1.50. Saudi doesn’t have taxes…
Also, he’s only doing this ’till December. I think it’s pretty logical. Less spending at the pump, more spending by the public on everything else to better the economy.
May 2nd, 2006, at 6:14 am #Here in Calgary, Canada, its 1.09 CDN$/L. I believe a US gallon in 3.785 L and right now with the US$ in the toilet, it is worth 1.11 CDN$.
That means we’re paying the equivalent of 3.72 US$/US gallon.
Given that a lot of oil comes from Alberta, that hardly seems fair, but fair has nothing to do with it. I drive less than 4000km/yr because I take the bus to work. If I drove more often, I’d purchase either a fuel efficient car or a hybrid that doesn’t burn fuel while idling.
Eventually the price of oil (and thus gas) will get so high that people will trade in their gasoline-powered cars for (say) a hydrogen fuel cell powered car. Then we’ll be able to power the fuel cells using whatever we want: coal, natural gas, oil or (increasingly) nuclear power (solar and wind just isn’t all that viable yet).
We’re not there yet. I figure oil would have to be in the triple digits before it made economic sense to start building fuel cell parts, cars and service stations. That might not happen for 20 years yet.
May 2nd, 2006, at 7:30 am #I think eventually the price of oil will get so high that the US will have to invade Iran for “destabilizing the oil market” among other reasons.
In the mean time, oil companies are racking up billions of dollars in profit. There is nothing wrong with making (huge) profit, but it’s not right when that profit is at the expense of the average Joe, and ultimately the whole economy.
Till then (invasion of Iran), I will drive my car less (work from home more, picnic in my back yard instead of driving to the coast…).
As a normal person, there is nothing else I can do to influence the price of gas
May 2nd, 2006, at 12:33 pm #Yes, they are racking up massive profits, but they’re investing them right back in the land (by exploring for more of it).
Sure, there’s little you can do to change the cost of oil, but you can reduce its impact on you (or even get rich from it).
May 3rd, 2006, at 1:05 pm #Hi,
more important is the question what car your drive. An American neighbor leaving Germany has now bought a truck. I think this thing will use about 15-20 liters /100 km!
Mine needs only 6.5 liters!
The reason why the oil prices is rising at spring is that many many Americans tend to make weekend trips into the impressing nature.
Karl
May 4th, 2006, at 1:12 am #Then is not enough oil in U.S.A and must be bought in Amsterdam causing higher prices.
Poor Europeans have to pay the price
from old Europe
PS.: If all americans would do their trip with my very nice VW Touran (http://touran.volkswagen.de/) then Oil prices would fall into basement.
Karl, in Europe, you like small, mini cars. In the US, Americans like big, huge cars. That’s a fact you immediately notice when you drive on US highways.
But, does that mean that Americans’ driving habit is the reason behind soaring gas prices? Maybe. How about China?
By the way, I do not think the VW Touran is sold in the US, at least I have not encountered one where I live.
May 4th, 2006, at 8:27 am #Karl, in Europe, you like small, mini cars …
Yes our cars are a lot smaller and the distances are too. But the effect of increasing gas prices in spring is a global effect caused by …
I wonder that DIESEL motors are not liked in U.S.A, with big trucks you can save a lot using DIESEL GAS instead of the normal gas.
My car is not mini!
it has more inner room then a GRAND CHEROKEE Jeep (my secret dream car) both for persons and baggage;
Greetings
May 5th, 2006, at 12:25 am #Karl
Hi, some link : http://www.storyal.de/story2004/energie.htm
Look for ‘Erdöl - Förderung und - Verbrauch’
May 5th, 2006, at 3:31 am #which means gas production and consuming
Greetings
Karl
Karl, the sooty deposits in diesel exhaust are carcinogenic - that sort of thing does not go down well in the U.S. for some reason
May 5th, 2006, at 11:42 pm #right - there is/was a problem with the particles …
May 6th, 2006, at 2:01 am #since begin of last year particle filters are installed on cars with diesel motors.
Greetings
karl
We are destroying the future. Maybe not our own personal future but for certain someone’s future if we don’t correct our present and start making the sacrifices necessary to ensure all futures not just our own. It comes down to one question and one rather complicated answer. The question is so simple a child could come up with it. How much oil can there be in the world and what happens when it is gone? The first part is easy because we don’t know and don’t have a very good clue either. But one word comes to mind when I try to answer the second part and that is armageddon.
No planes, no trains, no trucks, no ships, and no cars. Our navy would consist of sailboats and rowboats. Instead of an armored tank division we would have the cavalry and no air defense whatsoever. Not that anyone else in the world would either but if they did and we didn’t. We couldn’t ship anything without pony express and horse drawn wagons. And if you think about how many semi’s you see on the road today then you start to realize that you can’t get anything without them. And you can’t get it at Wal-mart either because guess how they get their supplies. Don’t forget the farmers either they will need plow horses and a miracle to get produce to you. And then there is heating oil, motor oil, and anything else derived from oil. Not really a pretty picture that I’m painting and chances are that I’m being optimistic about total economic collapse for the entire world.
We can change the outcome of the second part by making sacrifices. There is that dreaded word that no one likes to here, especially when we can’t clearly see when it will (not might) happen. Not that we can’t see the writing on the wall with all of oil price increases or desperate attempt to drill for oil in wildlife preserves. The sacrifices require everyone helping out with changing how we get from A to B and everywhere else in between.
First, bigger cities that do not have a light rail system need to get one and the cities that already do need to expand to cover more territory than they do now. Light rail will need to be used by more people to cover greater distances. This will help reduce the car gas usage greatly as long as we sacrifice and use it. Next we need to make every make and model of car, van, SUV, truck into a hybrid model and replace our current vehicles with these hybrids. That would be a good start but don’t be fooled it won’t be enough to sustain us forever. All the hybrids need to run on ethanol 85 which the scientific community is creating new more efficient ways of manufacturing. This is where the oil companies come in by putting their resources behind because we can’t foot that entire bill and if the want to continue to make money on us they will have to change and reduce profits or maybe new companies will emerge to lead the way. All this needs to be forced on us by the government because we need it to be.
Just that part to correct the self-destructive path that we are on will be tough enough change for everybody. Then from there we have to continue creating new and better power sources to even further reduce what oil we use. And that should include every type of motor we run from battleships to eighteen-wheelers to aircraft and to heavy machinery. We need to focus our schools more on science just like we did for the space race with the Soviet Union. Creating a greater focus on science will help us create new technologies in a shorter amount of time than we can now because we will have a much bigger base of people to think with.
It sound like an impossible task but so was the Great Wall of China and the pyramids in Egypt but they managed to get done. With the right vision and the elbow grease we can get it done. But more of us need to make this as a priority or not enough change will happen until it is to late. We never saw American militia groups as a threat until Timothy McVeigh with Oklahoma City or international terrorism as a threat until Osama Bin Laden with 9/11. We need to learn from our current history and start seeing future threats and acting on them in enough time to effect change. If you think terrorism is scary then what will happen when the oil well’s start to run dry should terrify you. We make the choice or when it all comes tumbling down it will be chosen for you. Either way it will happen to us, our kids, or some other generation after that. So it is up to all of us to brave a new world today or suffer through it tomorrow. I can’t see all the solutions but I’m willing to change to stop the problem from being as big.
July 5th, 2006, at 8:05 am #