# What's up with gas prices outside the US? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 31, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424 "2005-08-31T14:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/1 "2005-08-31T14:26:10Z")
With oil topping $70 a barrel and sending US gas prices over $3/gal, I wonder about gas prices in other countries. How about it, non-US Dopers? What are your gas prices these days compared to a year ago? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/2 "2005-08-31T14:44:21Z")
Regular gasoline just went up around 20% in Toronto. Yep. Gas was 95c/L on the weekend; today I saw two stations with 119c/L. The others in the area were 104c/L. I wonder whether it’s just spike or a long-term increase… ISTR that back in December it was around 68c/L. I also have the impression that gasoline in central Canada comes from the Gulf coast; that while Canada is a net exporter of oil, there is no continuous connection for oil across the country; rather, the western parts of the country sell enough to the States to enable the eastern parts to buy what they need from the States (and on the coasts, from overseas). This would explain the price rises in central Canada but not on the coasts. [http://www.torontogasprices.com/](http://www.torontogasprices.com/) has charts and prices, plus links to information for various areas in North America. Just checked the link. “Server too busy”. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/3 "2005-09-01T05:00:17Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > How about it, non-US Dopers? What are your gas prices these days compared to a year ago? A year ago, I want to know how they compare to _yesterday_. Did it go up the equivalent of 53 cents a gallon in a period of 25 hours all over the world? (it went up 19 cents between 1:30 and 3:30 at several stations I drove by in both directions this afternoon alone) Or are there laws elsewhere that limit the cost that the gas can go up before the stations’ prices do? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/4 "2005-09-01T05:20:01Z")
It’s gone up all across North America in the past day, but I shouldn’t expect the price of gasoline to have risen substantially in other markets. The price spike is due to loss of already stretched refinery capacity, but that won’t impact oil refining on other continents. Loss of oil production in the gulf will push crude prices up a bit, but the effect there will be proportionately much smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/5 "2005-09-01T05:36:07Z")
It went up 20% in Edmonton today. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/6 "2005-09-02T01:19:40Z")
It was 127c/L in central sydney last night. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/7 "2005-09-02T01:40:04Z")
Prices jumped to about $1.50 a litre in NZ, with a spokesman from BP saying that they’re unlikely to go down in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/8 "2005-09-02T03:09:35Z")
1 gallon = 3.785 litres so $1.50/litre = $5.68/gallon – your friendly neighbourhood unit convertor ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/9 "2005-09-02T03:12:21Z")
> [@Balduran](#): > > 1 gallon = 3.785 litres > > so $1.50/litre = $5.68/gallon > > – your friendly neighbourhood unit convertor :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/10 "2005-09-02T03:22:42Z")
Mrs. RickJay reports filling up today at $1.17 CDN a litre. By my estimate that is about $3.40 US per US gallon. Up from 95-103 cents a litre four days ago. However, she reports some Toronto stations were gouging at $2/litre. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/11 "2005-09-02T03:25:10Z")
> [@Balduran](#): > > 1 gallon = 3.785 litres > > so $1.50/litre = $5.68/gallon > > – your friendly neighbourhood unit convertor Is that US dollars or NZ dollars? 1 NZ dollar - 70.4c US. (I can see it’s a US gallon–an Imperial gallon, formerly used in NZ, Canada, Australia, etc, is 4.5 litres.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/12 "2005-09-02T03:28:54Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Mrs. RickJay reports filling up today at $1.17 CDN a litre. By my estimate that is about $3.40 US per US gallon. > > Up from 95-103 cents a litre four days ago. > > However, she reports **some Toronto stations were gouging at $2/litre**. :eek: :eek: I really hope that’s just a rumour. (Thanks to the handy-dandy Google unit-convertor, CAD 2 per litre = approximately US 6.30 per US gallon) Cripes. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/13 "2005-09-02T11:14:45Z")
We’re paying approximately USD 1.07/litre, for ordinary unleaded. The 93-octane I fill in my bike costs USD 1.14/litre. Oil companies here want to raise prices by at least 11 cents. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/14 "2005-09-02T11:25:23Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > It’s gone up all across North America in the past day, but I shouldn’t expect the price of gasoline to have risen substantially in other markets. The price spike is due to loss of already stretched refinery capacity, but that won’t impact oil refining on other continents. Loss of oil production in the gulf will push crude prices up a bit, but the effect there will be proportionately much smaller. Jeeeeeeeeeez could you have a less romantic idea about the world? Petrol has gone from (NZ)$1.20-something to $1.53 a litre in about 6 weeks. When the world farts we all smell it. Petrol prices went up 5 cents a litre at the pump for PREDICTED damage to gulf of Mexico damage a week before Katrina hit…makes you wonder why GW wasn’t more ready. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/15 "2005-09-02T12:03:26Z")
It’s not so very many months since you could get petrol at less than £0.80/litre Britside. Now it’s over £0.90 and in many places over £0.95. The proportionate rise is smaller because of our humungous fuel tax, which hasn’t increased much compared to the price of oil. Not sure what the currency exchange rate is. Here we have a 4.5 litre gallon, so we’re up over £4.00 a UK gallon. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/16 "2005-09-02T15:58:59Z")
Well one of the German newspapers (online verison) mentioned premium being at 1.42Euro/liter…which gets you up to $6.72/gallon ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/17 "2005-09-02T16:17:21Z")
Dutch newspapers said this week that the Netherlands currently have the second highest gas prices _in the entire world_. Only Turkey is more expensive. Currently, gas in Holland costs 1.73 dollar per litre (0,26 gallon), so \*\*6.92 dollars a gallon. \*\* Seventy-five percent of that is government taxes. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/18 "2005-09-02T16:18:34Z")
Gas prices are extremely unstable here right now, but 12 kroner per liter for standard unleaded has become common in the last 24 hours. That’s US$6.70 per gallon. In the biggest city in the country. I can’t imagine what the people in more isolated towns must be paying right now. ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/19 "2005-09-02T16:27:14Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Is that US dollars or NZ dollars? 1 NZ dollar - 70.4c US. (I can see it’s a US gallon–an Imperial gallon, formerly used in NZ, Canada, Australia, etc, is 4.5 litres.) I blame my kid’s fever last night for me not completing the conversion, $1.50NZ/Litre is then approximately $4.00US/US Gallon ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424/20 "2005-09-03T02:13:24Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > It’s gone up all across North America in the past day, Not here in Mexico. Prices are set by the government and rise about 3 to 4% a year which is below the inflation rate. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-gas-prices-outside-the-us/319424.md?page=2)