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Hi,
I just wanted to know how much gas/petrol (fuel for vehicle) costs in all countries. My vehicle uses petrol and costs me around 43 Rupees (approx 1 USD) per litre. The price varies from citi to city. In cities like Bangalore and Bombay, it costs much higher.
What abt others!! :rolleyes:
It's about $1 in Romania, now that the dollar has risen comparing to Euro (it used to ve $1.1-1.2 lately).
But that's not a good metric. A better metric would be how much hours/minutes do you have to work to buy one liter. Or how much liters one can buy with country's average salary.
Over R 6
in South Africa
Today in Quebec, Canada, the cost of ordinary leadless gas is at a record high
0.81$us / liter
(according to XE.COM conversion)
it used to be 0.46$us / liter 10-15 years ago.
:rolleyes: :thumbd: :thumbd: :thumbd: :thumbd: :eek:
If you consider a salary of about 15$ / hour, this means it costs 4 minutes of work per liter.
In my part of the US it's about $0.60/liter right now, and even being only 24 years old, I can remember a time when it was less than half that. I don't worry about it though, since I try to avoid driving whenever possible. ;)
Here's a page that talks about some of the factors that tie into gas prices, if anyone's interested. The discussion primarily concerns the US, but says that prices are much higher in Europe because a much higher percentage of the total cost goes to taxes. I don't know how accurate or recent these figures are, but one example is gives is that 31% of the cost per unit of gasoline in the US goes to taxes, whereas that figure is 78% in England.
True, lots of money goes to taxes, but oil control by OPEC makes the prices rise and keep our wallets hostages... It's all about a quasi-monopoly.
Gas companies decide on a price and stick to it... for a while. When vacations come... they raise it... for more profit... not because of shortage.
So unless selling gas becomes really less profitable should we see a real competitive market.
:sick:
Two years ago, it was only 65 cents per liter, now it is about 95-1,06$ per liter, and became higher every day
Right now, its (US)$2.00+ per gallon.
Wow !! 2.00 / gallon ?? ?Wherez that ?Quote:
Originally Posted by che_rish
In San Diego, can't find anything below 2.45
You can find stats from around the country at gaspricewatch.com. The lowest entry in their latest numbers is $1.94/gal in Casper, WY and the highest is $2.79/gal in San Francisco, CA.Quote:
Originally Posted by kirants
I did say $2.00+ :D (emphasis on the "plus" (+) sign. I know.. I should have put $2.50+). ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kirants
It took me a while to get the exact price... its actually:
Full Service: $3.029 (super), $2.909 (regular), $3.009 (diesel).
Self Service: $2.869 (super), $2.739 (regular), $2.959 (diesel).
Location: Saipan, CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US Territory... in the Pacific Ocean. :D ).
// We have gas attendants here, so I hope that explains the full-service and self-service.
With an average salary in Australia you can buy around about 2,500 litres of fuel in a month.
Fuel costs around $0.60 (US Dollars) per litre and that's considered high at the moment. Normally it would be under $0.50. They attribute the high prices to the war and whatever else excuse they can come up with.
It really is frustrating at times, huh? Here I thought its only in Philippines or here in Saipan that gas prices are going up. But now I see its happening all over the world! :eek:
// Hmmm. Maybe I should read more news. :D
Well, news generally blame it on rising demands from countries like China which could be driving this.. But, well,this shortage and rising prices has to happen one day !! I am just thinking why it's taking all these giant businesses so long to come up with an alternative to gas.. I bet it is their way of sucking out people to their last pennies..