This weekend, I filled her up. Euro 95, unleaded.
NLG 2.69 per liter => USD 1.076 per liter => USD 4.07 per American Gallon.
So I win again 
Oh CRAP yojimbo already posted 
Sweet merciful crap, that’s enormous. What is that, a Daihatsu or something? Don’t know of many one liter cars.
I pay about USD 800 a year for my Peugeot 306 1.4, but it’s full coverage. The car is worth about USD 8000 now, I guess. But then, comparing car PRICES cross border is another thing altogether.
That’s for a little piss-ant of a nissan micra.
It for all the reasons above that I don’t drive a car.
Report from central Ohio, U.S.A… Today the range was $1.47 to 1.58 per gallon. This is off a few cents from the .25 to $.30 increase we took a week ago Thursday, just before the Labor Day holiday weekend. Funny how the price fluctuates like that just before a holiday, I’m sure there’s no connection. (ya, right)
It was just reported on BBC Radio that a gas station in Derby (about 100 miles north of here in Oxford) was selling gas at the equivalent of £11/gallon, or about $16.50/gallon.
I’ll repeat.
SIXTEEN DOLLARS. AND FIFTY CENTS. FOR. A. GALLON.
From now on, anyone who complains about gas prices being too high in the States will be shot.
68.9/litre here and by the news I heard on the way home today, no let up in sight. I was in the northern part of the province in the weekend and it was 61/litre. I wish I had a bigger tank.
If thats what it was here, I’d be staying home an awful lot.
Hmmmmm. A buck 68 starts to look pretty good, in relation to the OP.
$1.62, here in CT.
Filling up the tank from the 1/4 mark on my Toyota Celica on Sunday came to 10.984 gallons (I have the receipt here), and at $1.699/gallon, that works out to $18.66 to fill the tank. Also, Coldfire, you want to factor in the fact that you have 95 octane gasoline, a grade not even available in the States - premium gasoline is 93 octane, and I filled up with 89 octane. Most regular gasoline is 87 octane. I was also able to calculate my gas mileage (the reason for saving the receipt) - I drove 238.4 miles on that 10.984 gallons, brining me to approximately 21.7 MPG - not bad at all, considering the minivan and the Volvo both get about 16-18 MPG. And I drive hard, too. When I accellerate from a stoplight, I end up about 50 feet in front of all the other cars 10 seconds later, when I’m in the lead. And I do a lot of driving at speeds higher than 60-65 mph.
BTW, not to hijack, but what’s the reason that European cars have such high-grade gasoline?
Good question. I’m in New Jersey and pay about 1.47 a gallon here. I took a weekend road trip to to Boston and on Interstate 95 through CT Gas was 1.79 a gallon On the way to Salem Mass I passed a gas station offering 1.65 and I filled up again.
Shit, man! For that price, I’d build myself a still & use alcohol.
(anyone know if you can even modify fuel injected engines to use alcohol?)
Good question, SanibelMan. In the Netherlands, we have Euro 95 (replaced the “normal” gasoline when lead was outruled) and Euro 98 (replaced the “super” gasoline). You can buy Lead Replacement in bottles for really old engines. I think you combine it with 98.
Then we also have diesel and LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas).
Does this mean our engines are cleaner, or more sophisticated? Dirtier, less sophisticated? Seems weird - a lot of cars are the same here and in the US.
Yeah Coldie but how about Euro 96 ?
- leave me alone, it’s ok to live on memories.
It’s all relative; $1.68 per gallon sucks when you’re not used to paying for it, but I have always maintained that we’ve got the best fuel prices in the world.
Now having said that, in Boise Idaho, for the Holiday weekend, Chevron dropped it’s price per gallon by 14 cents.
$16 + a gallon!?!?!?! Here in the wilds of North Dakota, specificly Fargo, gas is anywhere from $1.58.9 a gallon to $1.69.9 .
This does not bode well for the world’s economy. Expect global inflation to begin soon… The price of everything bought and sold is influenced by the cost of oil. Anything that is shipped by land, sea, or air will see a price increase as a result of increased shipping costs, as well as manufacturing costs for any oil based plastics, sovents, or lubricants…All while the big oil companies have posted profits in the triple digit percentile range…
Looks like the '70s are coming back in more than fashion…
I can just see Yanks falling over themselves to get this baby . I’d love one but I don’t think I’d fit in it .
I know that the Chrysler minivans I saw in France were turbo diesels - not an option at all here in the US as far as I know. I don’t know about other cars… what does your car manual say as far as the minimum grade of gasoline?
As for the Smart car, we saw a lot of those in France and all of us agreed we’d love to get one for home.
I swear on my uncle’s fake leg, I don’t even look anymore. I just bow my head, weep pitifully, gnash my teeth, and pump away. Hopefully I’ll get in a wreck and have to bike to school. Yeah, that’s the ticket, Tim. Nothin like a 40 mile bike ride every morning to get the ol’ heart pumpin.
–Tim