I’m buying petrol at 98c per litre!
I know that isn’t a great price for Americans (Australians pay around twice what American pay) but it’s a magic number 
It’s the number where the figure on the pump is smaller than the Litre figure, and if you aren't paying attention, you mix up the two numbers, because for the last 20 years the quantity has been smaller than the figure.
Well, for some value of “Americans.”
Plenty of Americans pay twice what other Americans pay. Even right now, with prices at their lowest point in a while, there are people in California paying over $3.00 per gallon. Here in Connecticut, I can currently get it for about $1.60. And there are places like Oklahoma where you can just about break the $1.00 mark.
Even during normal times, there are Americans who pay pretty much what Aussies pay. I made a visit home to Australia in July 2018, and I remember buying petrol in Sydney and calculating, based on the exchange rate at the time, that it was almost exactly the same as I was paying in San Diego.
Per liter? Heck, some Americans are currently paying that per GALLON.
I haven’t seen sub-$1 gasoline since the mid 1980s.
No they’re not.
The Australian dollar is not worth the same amount as the US dollar. One dollar Australian is about $.63 US at the current exchange rate.
Where I live it’s 117 per litre still, and 131 for diesel. Still, damned cheap compared to what it was!!
Here in Napa Valley, CA, gas has dropped below $3.00/ gal. I haven’t seen that in quite a while. I don’t know what it is in the rest of the Bay Area, but we’re usually on the highish end. I think San Jose has higher prices usually.
On top of all that, my car has been getting two weeks per gallon! Best mileage ever!
Are you in the US? Because in my part, gas dropped down to 89 cents after 9/11.
Here in Denver we certainly didn’t get below $1 after 9/11. The lowest it got was $1.04. Now that number is an average so I guess its probable that some of the discount stores briefly dipped under a dollar.
When I was in high school in '99 I remember buying gas for under a dollar, that was in California and was quite shocking.
I saw $1.43 (ok, ok $1.439) last week in relatively-high-tax Illinois.
Dang, I’m old. I can remember putting 50 cents in the tank for a weekend of driving back in high school.
I used less than 50 cents of gas this weekend driving.
Self quoting but I saw the same price today.
Edit: And that’s US dollars per gallon.
$1.99/gallon is as low as its gotten here in Sacramento.
Of course, I last filled up my car on March 13, and I still have about 3/8 of a tank left, so it may be down to 99 cents a gallon by the time I need to buy more…
The lowest GasBuddy gives me is 77.1 c/L ($2.05 US per US gallon) in Belleville, Ontario. It was only a few months ago that we were paying 114 c/L.
Right now, we’re at 69.9 cents per liter. Last fall, I think we were at about 125 cents per liter.
I haven’t seen prices this low in about 15 years.
I bought gas at 67.5¢ CAD /litre (~$1.90 USD /gallon or 75¢ AUD /litre) a couple of weeks ago. It’s currently around 76¢ CAD /litre. A couple of months ago it was around $1.10 /litre.
Self quoting again but it was down to $1.419 today. Illinois has the third highest gasoline tax at 55 cents/gal behind only CA and PA.
I paid $1.69 today but it is cheaper at Costo so I will probably go there next time.