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: 2008-05-10 11:05 pm (UTC)The planning is bad, the quality is poor, and they are almost never fixed quickly.
Granted I'm comparing to the UK where we actually have funding for stuff like that... so it probably doesn't compare too well... but still.
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Date: 2008-05-10 11:20 pm (UTC)