Gas Prices
May. 4th, 2008 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkcrystI spoke to my dad earlier, and he brought up an terrifying point for all those people in the USA who are worried about $4 gasoline....
Currently the price in the UK is 1.11GBP per litre. That works out as $8.30 a US gallon...
...the UK isn't really that much more expensive than the rest of the world. Maybe 1.50 of that is the extra tax that they use to, well, have a road system that doesn't suck1
So yeah, when people say it's going to get worse before it gets better? It's more of a - it was artificially good before (subsidized), now the US is actually catching up.
owch.
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1 - ok, so I'm in California which has roads designed as if by tripping hippies and built as if by a stoned surfer name Jeb, but... still...
Currently the price in the UK is 1.11GBP per litre. That works out as $8.30 a US gallon...
...the UK isn't really that much more expensive than the rest of the world. Maybe 1.50 of that is the extra tax that they use to, well, have a road system that doesn't suck1
So yeah, when people say it's going to get worse before it gets better? It's more of a - it was artificially good before (subsidized), now the US is actually catching up.
owch.
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1 - ok, so I'm in California which has roads designed as if by tripping hippies and built as if by a stoned surfer name Jeb, but... still...
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Date: 2008-05-05 01:29 pm (UTC)Isn't it Sierra Leone where gas is around $18.50 USD/gallon?
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Date: 2008-05-05 07:28 pm (UTC)