$2.04 per gallon

[CoffeeGuy]

That's the most I've ever paid for a gallon of gas. You can tear up a $50 bill filling a 22 gallon tank.

[Noahtuck]

That's the most I've ever paid for a gallon of gas. You can tear up a $50 bill filling a 22 gallon tank.

That's all hell, i'm in michigan and i have seen 2.17 & 2.20 in the last month!!!!!!!!!! one of my friends said last year when it was only 1.87 a gallon, bet you like riding that road bike all summer don't ya!?!?!?!
And that was a jump from what it was 2 weeks before

[budz]

Stop whining about gas prices cuz here in honolulu, hawaii we pay $2.50 a gallon for premium unleaded. we have been paying the highest price for years now so it's about time you mainlanders caught up with us.

[Ma_Jie]

We pay shitloads in Canada today. I saw it as high as 85 cents/L (roughly 4 L/gallon).

So we pay like 3.20 or so per gallon equivalent. I miss the days when 50 was considered high.

- MJ

[CoffeeGuy]

What does a person need with an automobile in honolulu ?

[Noahtuck]

Stop whining about gas prices cuz here in honolulu, hawaii we pay $2.50 a gallon for premium unleaded. we have been paying the highest price for years now so it's about time you mainlanders caught up with us.

Premium!!!!!!! i am talking about unleaded regular!!!!!!
:P

[CoffeeGuy]

Really ! Who's gonna pay premium prices for what is probably the same as unleaded ?

[mrtristan]

Yeah, gas is pretty expensive here, but we're a car based community, so it's pointless to complain. I could go on a rant about price fixing and so forth, but that would touch into the "no politics" rule.

Regular unleaded is about $2.20-$2.30, right now.

At least we have the best prices in Honolulu. Prices on Maui are even worse. They're about 20 cents more, across the board.

[Faustus]

Here in Dallas I just payed $1.95 a gallon.

[richdvd]

We pay shitloads in Canada today. I saw it as high as 85 cents/L (roughly 4 L/gallon).

So we pay like 3.20 or so per gallon equivalent. I miss the days when 50 was considered high.

- MJ

They are alot higher than 85 cents in some parts.
Some places here are 92 cents.

[budz]

What does a person need with an automobile in honolulu ?

ever thought of having to drive from one end of the island to the other? drive through traffic every morning if you're coming from the leeward coast of the island of oahu into downtown honolulu. it's freeking murder k. nuff said.

:P as for the comment about regular gasoline i knew you were talking about premium unleaded. none the less our state has the highest gas prices in the freeking USA. which is why i fill up at costco which is cheaper than filling up at chevron or shell oil.

[Ma_Jie]

budz, can't you just walk :P

Where are u in Canada rich? I'm near Toronto, and the prices really flucuate. The East End of Toronto always has cheaper gas than where I am, for example.

MJ

[budz]

budz, can't you just walk :P

Where are u in Canada rich? I'm near Toronto, and the prices really flucuate. The East End of Toronto always has cheaper gas than where I am, for example.

MJ

I actually do walk everyday from my pc to my pc to my tv dvd recorder. Hahahahahaha! :P

[Grimey]

We pay shitloads in Canada today. I saw it as high as 85 cents/L (roughly 4 L/gallon).

So we pay like 3.20 or so per gallon equivalent. I miss the days when 50 was considered high.

- MJ

They are alot higher than 85 cents in some parts.
Some places here are 92 cents.

It was 96 here yesterday

[rhegedus]

Stop whinging

This was my last fill-up:



51.39 liter = 13.5758017 US gallon

41.57 GBP = 79.6757 USD

Price per gallon = 79.6757 / 13.5758
= 5.87 $

Ever get the feeling you're being ripped off?

[Ma_Jie]

That's $95.96 CDN...holy shit. How can you afford it man?


- MJ

[rhegedus]

And that's 3 days worth of petrol...............

[Ma_Jie]

Whoa, $180+ CDN/week for gas.

That's nuts.

I feel for you...maybe 80-85 cents/L isn't so bad after all.

- Jie

[AlecWest]

It's finally happened. We've reached the point where a renewable resource is now cheaper than the non-renewable resource. I anticipate that, over the next few years, we'll see an increase in popularity of owning diesel vehicles ... not burning normal diesel fuels, but burning biodiesel.

The current price for biodiesel (using a lot of soybean or vegetable oils) is $1.79 per gallon US. And to make a go of it on a large scale, we only need to convince farmers to switch to soybean production. And with a ready market for biodiesel growing, it might not take much convincing. It even has the support of a well-known country celebrity:

http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/driving/story.html?id=84c7a997-b54...3-d2c5873830a0

All you need is a diesel vehicle. No conversion required. The only drawback is that, by burning soybean oil, your neighborhood will begin to smell like an oriental restaurant ... making people hungry all the time and possibly leading to an obesity epidemic.

[Faustus]

I HAVE been drooling over that Trubo Diesel bug....

to bad I can't afford one...

[rhegedus]

How many acres of crop are needed to produce, say 1000 gallons?

[AlecWest]

How many acres of crop are needed to produce, say 1000 gallons?

Not sure. I haven't looked through the site yet but your answers might be here:

http://www.biodiesel.org (National Biodiesel Board)

Willie Nelson's primary objective is to interest truckers in switching. But eventually, if farmers use biodiesel machinery to harvest the crop (John Deere is now making such machinery), the cost of producing biodiesel will hit a "constant" ... as opposed to the fluctuations of oil prices.

My stepdad was a farmer and rancher. And, I can't tell you how glad I am to see the day when a farmer can beat an oil shiek at his own game.

[rhegedus]

Not an answer to my question, but it does show something:

http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/Production%20Capacity_2004.pdf

Current production capacity is 150m gallons/year with additional capacity of around 200m gallons/year.

That's 350m gallons/year - just over a gallon for every man, woman and child in the US per year.

Production will have to go up 100x for it to be viable.

[pbhalerao]

Gas/Petrol is cheapest in US with the possible exception of Arabian peninsular countries. In UK it is 80p a litre, in India it is Rs. 43 a litre (nearly $1). The US gallon is 3.7854 litres so work it out and you, US guys, will realize that you are not that bad off at all.

[Cobra]

rhegedus - I had a similar reciept in the scanner as soon as I saw this thread... I wish OUR prices were $2.04 per gallon...

[rhegedus]

rhegedus - I had a similar reciept in the scanner as soon as I saw this thread... I wish OUR prices were $2.04 per gallon...

I had the misfortune of having to fill up at a Texaco on a main road out of Swansea last month where they sting the customers - 91.0p/L for super!!!

Since I'm doing about 400-500 miles a week now, I've stopped using my Shell Optimax and have gone back to regular, saving about £5-6 a week.

I wish I'd bought a diesel...........

[Cobra]

What sort of fuel efficiency do you get on your BMW?

I am currently getting about 45-50mpg on my Almera. Not quite as high-performance as your car, mind you!

[rhegedus]

I just worked it out - the last fill up was after 283.5 miles

51.39L = 11.3 UKG

Comes to 25mpg..... BMW claim 29mpg for the 325Ci auto

That's over a 100m round trip of which the first 8 miles is steep, twisty country lanes, the next 35 miles is dual carrigeway at 80-90 mph and the last 7 miles is city centre - then reversed for the return leg.

[MackemX]

Stop whinging

This was my last fill-up:



51.39 liter = 13.5758017 US gallon

41.57 GBP = 79.6757 USD

Price per gallon = 79.6757 / 13.5758
= 5.87 $

Ever get the feeling you're being ripped off?

exactly and it's been higher than that before

remember September 2000?

http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/09/12/london.fuel/index.html

[Cobra]

Notice something about that reciept. See the "SALE TOTAL" part? Notice how much space they've left? They can print a total of £999,999,999,999,999,999.99 on that reciept! Maybe NASA fill up there?

25mpg? That's what the Vauxhall Omega I used to drive got.

EDIT - If you're wondering how I worked that one out, I got into Paint and counted how many times I could copy-and-paste the "4" in...