Gas Prices around the world....

Totally agree with you Anti.

I use my car mostly when i go out at night, buy something big, or to go to college. When i need to go somewhere near home, i rather walk or use my crappy old bike. People these days are so dependant of cars that is actually quite funny.

To work i take the bus, and if during work time i need to go to another place i choose between subway and bus ( just for the records, the subway system in Rio is not that big, that's why the majority of people use the bus.

 

Florida has the highest number of pedestrian fatalities here in the USA. Most road's speed limits are 45mph but everyone goes 50mph and up and most roads, especially where I live, don't have sidewalks. Hope Gainesville is more pedestrian friendly than Orlando...

 

It's $2.13 here. My dad says it costs $52 to fill up his car (he drives a Ford Explorer).

 

Unfortunatly I work 20 miles away and there's no buses that go in that direction. Taking the bus sucks ass. I did it for years. I used to wake up at 5 am to take three different busses to get to school, then take another bus at 12 to get to work by 1 pm, then take another bus back to school at 7, then take three more at ten to get home by 1 a.m. I did that shit for three years until I finally scraped up enoguh to buy my first car. I'm though with that.

But that's the problem, in America public transportation means "the bus" unless you live in a city that's blessed with a decent subway/trolly system that can actually get you places like New York and.... umm.... San Francisco. But busses run on gasoline also. So eventually when the oil peaks they're going to be just as useless as your car. Anyway...

Ten bucks a gallon? FUCK THAT! Damn, living in DK sucks!

 

Hawanja: the currency of the krone(r) is 1 krone =0.17 US dollars and 100 kroner is 16.5 US dollars

 

Well its 9 kroner for a liter of gasoline, right? A gallon of gasoline is almost 4 liters, so you would pay $6.12 a gallon for gas in DK.

 

yes.

 

You're right, often when you're in a rural area you have no other options, fortunately I am not so I have the liberty of choosing. It sounds bad living so far from the nearest store.

 

Thats really how it is in the USA. Thats why we're the largest consumer of oil.

 

In the Esso station where I work, unleaded (we only sell one kind - I think it's Super 95) is 112.8 cent per litre, which is... er... (I can work this out!)...

76.7p per litre, or... US$5.24 per (US) gallon

Wow, I'm surprised how much cheaper it is here compared to the UK, as most stuff here is a rip-off in comparison. And being the second most expensive petrol station in town, the place where I work isn't a particularly good example - most other stations are around 104-108 cent per litre. I think the fancy stuff like Shell V-Power is about 120c.

I know it may sound to you Americans that us Europeans pay hideous amounts for petrol, but you are forgetting one thing - we generally drive smaller cars here, which in turn are better fuel-consumption wise.

I don't know what a typical American family car is these days, but I suppose I can't go too wrong by comparing the US Toyota Corolla with the model sold in Europe (which is more or less the same as the Japanese model). According to the Toyota websites (www.toyota.com and www.toyota.ie), European Corolla 1.4 5-door hatchback does a "combined" mileage (which I assume is some sort of average) of 42mpg*, whereas the US Corolla 1.8 does (city/highway) 32/41mpg (on the manuals and 30/38 with the automatics. These are the smallest engines available on both models respectively.

EDIT: Actually, that first one would be imperial gallons... so that would be about 35 miles per US gallon. OK, that doesn't make sense now. I don't know exactly how those milages compare...

*Yes, the Irish Toyota website quotes their milages in MPG - nearly everything's metric here - especially after all road speed limits were converted to km/h at the beginning of the year. But we still buy pints of beer, and our cars still do mileages ^_^. Then again, litres per 100km are just annoying...