How Much Are You Paying?

Lowest price in town is $2.22. It'd be about 4/5 of that without taxes, but hey, Uncle Sam's got to get his share for all the hard work he does wasting it :roll: .

Of course, I bike everywhere so it's not much concern to me.
 
In Canada it is $ 1.06 a litre which comes out to $3.06 U.S. a Gallon. It is time for some Road Warrior action. I am forming my own raider society.
 
Roshambo said:
Because you are paying for fat retirement packages and for just one oil company to make $36 billion in profit.

Last year.

It doesn't look like they are doing too badly.
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Others companies are doing well, too.
French group Total net profit :
2001: = 7.66 billions euros
2002 : -22% (*) = 6- billions euros ~= $5.6 billions ( 0.95 $/€ )
2003 : +17% = 7+ billions euros ~= $8- billions ( 1.13 $/€ )
2004 : +23% ~= 9+ billions euros ~= $11.2 billions ( 1.24 $/€)
( +27% in sales )
2005 : +31% ~= 12 billions euros ~= $15- billions ( 1.24 $/€ )
( +17% in sales )

(*) : variation based on euro values

Sources : several financial and general news site + http://www.total.com/en/finance/results_presentations (english)

PS: As I gathered the data for the annual €/$ change rate, I'd appreciate if anyone knows a website that centralizes those data for each year ...
 
TheWesDude said:
i pay like 2.85 a gallon for the good shit. but then again i drive a old suzuki swift which is a glorified geo metro with 4 cyls...
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There's a very common misconception that high octane gasoline is "the good shit". Here's a pretty good article that explains what octane does.(you'll have to take the goofy 3rd person writting style with a grain of salt)

The gist of the article is: the octane prescribed by your car's owners’ manual is "the good shit" for your car.

ps Bajaj USA (or I guess they go by Argos USA now) is a fairly impressive company, if you're in to that sort of thing. 110 miles-per-gallon is deffinately noteworthy. Even in the scooter/motercycle industry.

pps I don't know what I did that merited removing my "lying nooby" lable, but thanks to whomever removed it. I'll try not to make any more ignorant comments from now on.
 
Currently in Alberta, Canada we are up to $1.08 can/litre. I heard a rumor it will get up to $1.50 canadian this summer. We have the cheapest price here in Alberta compared to the rest of Canada. The funny thing is, if you talk to people who drive big SUV's, they don't care how much gas/diesel goes for, they will not give-up there ride. I might bring my pedal bike out of storage this summer, but I doubt it.
 
Well according to an Australian current affairs program (Today Tonight for those who may know of it), Australia pays 30c (AU$) more per litre than the US does.

I would not hold this show to be the most credible out there, but it does show the relation between the prices.

Australia's petrol prices are mainly governed by taxes whic account for over 60c of total price. Product cost (petrol etc) accounts for around 12-13c and the supplier's margin is around 30-40c...

But that still doesn't answer why the prices have jumped once again to $1.40/litre...But hell I'm still going to have to pay.
 
Roshambo said:
More happy fun!

Did you know you could get fined for selling gas too cheaply, if it's not by the agreed amount that oil-funded boards decide on?

So small business can't compete with the larger ones, because of a law that was designed to keep large companies from undercutting smaller competition, but the smaller can't do the same either. And gas prices keep steadily going upwards because there is no competition when all the oil companies can agree on a price and all make profit from it.
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Man that is fucked...

But is that just in the US or basically a similar individual country law around the globe...??

I've heard of such a thing in Australia, but never believed it to be true.
 
forddieselguy said:
Currently in Alberta, Canada we are up to $1.08 can/litre. I heard a rumor it will get up to $1.50 canadian this summer. We have the cheapest price here in Alberta compared to the rest of Canada. The funny thing is, if you talk to people who drive big SUV's, they don't care how much gas/diesel goes for, they will not give-up there ride. I might bring my pedal bike out of storage this summer, but I doubt it.
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Where about are you in Alberta? I'm in Calgary, and I think that the addiction to cars has more to do with the fact that my city is designed like Los Angeles in that there is endless sub-urban sprawl to the horizon and a joke of a public transit system. Today gasoline in Calgary was about $1.07 - $1.10 / liter, but this includes $0.19 in federal and provincial taxes. The price was $1.13 for a few days when the hurricanes hit in the USA, and now it's almost up to that level again. I remember back in July of 2005, when gas prices just hit $1.00, that it was in the newspaper. I also remember when it was about $0.55 / liter back around 2001.

You people should all keep in mind that gas is only a fraction of what it used to cost in the USA back in the 1970's when the OPEC embargo happened, adjusted for inflation.
 
i dont believe we can really compare gas prices from country to country it all depends on each countrys economical state, for example here where i live, PARAGUAY, from SOUTH AMERICA, the minimum salary here is 1,085,000 GUARANIES

1 $ = 5730 Guaranies
Minimum Salary = 189.35$

and the NAFTA here per litre is 7035 Guaranies = 1.22 $
Diesel = 4025 Guaranies
0.70 $

so u cant really compare prices from one country with another, it all depends on each countries Economical Situation, and from where they importing the gasoline, if its local, its cheaper, if its imported, expensiver~
 
machikaiser said:
i dont believe we can really compare gas prices from country to country it all depends on each countrys economical state, for example here where i live, PARAGUAY, from SOUTH AMERICA, the minimum salary here is 1,085,000 GUARANIES

1 $ = 5730 Guaranies
Minimum Salary = 189.35$

and the NAFTA here per litre is 7035 Guaranies = 1.22 $
Diesel = 4025 Guaranies
0.70 $

so u cant really compare prices from one country with another, it all depends on each countries Economical Situation, and from where they importing the gasoline, if its local, its cheaper, if its imported, expensiver~
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Even still, it is comparable to your total wage.

So, if I'm spending AU$50 a week on petrol, that is nearly 20% of my weekly wage after tax. (Hey come on, I'm a first year apprentice).

But still, I see your point, but it has to do really with the ratio to your expenditure on petrol to your wage.

And anyway, doesn't the Foreign Exchange market account for differences in one's economy??
 
I just looked at the Shell pump across the street from my house and these are the current prices: (I've performed a quick conversion into Euros and Canadian Dollars per litre and US Dollars per gallon for your convenience)

Code: 
 				Kč/l	€/l	CA$/l	US$/gln

Diesel	 	30,00	1,05	1,48	5,05
Natural 95	30,50	1,07	1,50	5,14
V-Power		31,90	1,12	1,57	5,37
V-P Diesel	31,60	1,11	1,56	5,32
V-P Racing	34,50	1,21	1,70	5,81

Conversions used: 1 gallon = 3,79 litres; €1 = 28,5 Kč; CA$1 = 20,3 Kč; US$1 = 22,5 Kč (I've undervalued the koruna a bit as it's rather high right now).

Our purchasing power and overall price levels are somewhat lower than in the US as well. On the other hand, a lot of the difference is caused by higher taxation, and the prices in Prague are slightly above the national average (at least they were last month).

Fortunately I almost don't have to use a car at all.
 
Gas prices jumped today, I saw. Yesterday it was $2.57 a gallon, now $2.75 a gallon. Naturally on the day my car's empty light goes on. Sad part is was listening to news radio right as I saw it and the announcer was yapping about a gas price drop due to an announcment about American reserves. Right.
 
PhredBean said:
Gas prices jumped today, I saw. Yesterday it was $2.57 a gallon, now $2.75 a gallon. Naturally on the day my car's empty light goes on. Sad part is was listening to news radio right as I saw it and the announcer was yapping about a gas price drop due to an announcment about American reserves. Right.
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Mate, that always seems to happen to me too. But the rise in fuel prices seems to surround holidays (the Easter weekend & other holidays)...

Since Easter here in Aus, the prices have been around 20c on average, higher, unfortunately...

But what I see as strange is that 80% of our crude oil comes from our very own supplies, but the price seems to fluctuate around the world standards, and higher.

Luckily only owning a 1.6L 4cylinder car means I can almost push 500km out of a tank.
 
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