http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7082847.stm

Is this true? Gasoline is 1E a liter! Isn't that approximately $9 US dollars a gallon? Ouch! I hope most of you can take the train or drive short distances. Its $3.13 a gallon in the North East US and its hurting folks already.

It's actually £1 a litre, not one Euro (which is about 2/3 of a Pound stirling).
You see the sacrifices we're making to stop you getting wiped out by hurricanes and drought?

But how is this effecting daily life in the UK? I imagine you folks don't have to travel the distances we do in the USA but still $9.00/gallon ouch!

Just to confuse matters, it actually works out (at current exchange prices) as $7.95 per US gallon, as a US gallon is 0.832673844 of an Imperial gallon

This makes a UK gallon approx' $9.55

it's been near this price for ages now. everyones just stopped feeding their kids, in order to feed their cars. also christmas is cancelled. we've all turned to prostitution, drug running and highway robbery.

which is nice

t's been near this price for ages now. everyones just stopped feeding their kids, in order to feed their cars. also Christmas is canceled. we've all turned to prostitution, drug running and highway robbery.

Thats why you are all coming here with those pounds and Euros even entry level clerks get to stay in 5 star hotels and bring all of those empty suitcases ;which you fill after shopping at Century 21 Department Stores in lower Manhattan.

stand and deliver!

You really want my nearly worthless currency?

HEY .................if you want to send it to me free............YES !!

Don't believe a word of it; you know 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill'? That's the real England(with the addition of a few chirpy cockneys who speak and act exactly like Dick Van Dyke).
Apart from the rural bits where we all cycle to work across the village green.

All I know is the ones in NYC (on holiday) are having a grand old time buying everything that isn't nailed down.
There is even major UK and Dutch investment in Manhattan real estate. If you go to Century 21 Department Stores, you wil hear more English accents than American

Jamesleo, a few years back there was all sorts of protests about the price of petrol. People who drive for a living were driving slow and blocking motorways! Some people likened it to the Jarrow march! (I will see if I can do a link)

I bloddy hated those numpties. It was all the owner drivers squealing like stuck pigs because there was a hike in fuel taxation. These were the same fuckers that ran coal to power stations past picket lines during the miners strike. I once overtook a whole mass of the tossers on the M1, northbound near Daventry, on the hard shoulder, so I could get home one afternoon.

And...



You should hear them complaining here about the $3.00 gallon (US).

Here's an idea. Don't buy cars that only do 12 to the gallon you idiots! Why do you need a 6.5 litre V8 to go to work and visit the mall?

On a similar note, when the pump price rocketed past $1AU (about 73p) a couple of years back, the whinging went through the roof - mostly by the folks you mentioned above, Martyn.

When I got my current car in 2000 it cost about £40 to fill the tank when the fuel warning light came on.
When the warning light came on last night it cost £45.50 to fill up.

petrol's a lot more expensive in the UK than the US but because (I guess) of the amount of tax included in the UK price, the cost to the motorist isn't really very volatile, crude can shoot up in price but the effect at the pump is only ever 1 or 2p

we all get a laugh about how rising forecourt prices can make headline news in the US for days on the trot though

OTOH if a person with cancer in one part of the UK can't get Herceptin and a similar person in another part of the country can, the news media go ballistic about it.

The price has gone up because the oil companies realise that the consumers can't stop buying fuel because we need it. So they will push up prices until they get fined by the government. just like one of the gas firms recently that got fined for over inflating prices with no justifaction.

Premium is almost at $4.00 a gallon now.

We run all our vehicles on regular and increasing numbers of people ask about the Scion xB.
(1500cc, over 30 to the gallon)

I'm even smug about the bike despite it's gargantuan cubic capacity - 32 per gallon of regular.

They're really feeling the pinch here.

Makes you wonder how long they'll stand for it when they pick up their paper and read that Exxon made, wait for it...

Eleven BILLION dollars PROFIT in the THREE months to the end of Feb.

America is on the way there. One individual who works at a refinery in America was told that gas prices were going all the way to $5.00 a gallon in the near future. That was several months ago and we've gone to nearly $4.00 a gallon since then.

Just a matter of time before we're driving one of those new cars from India - the Nano, manufactured by Tata.

At $2500 American, it might be our only solution until we finally gear up for serious manufacturing of "green" autos.

now it's getting towards £1.20 per liter ooop north - and I'm starting to wish it'd stop tbh with you james

1.60 euro a liter and still rising....
Which with the current euro means a little more than 10 dollars per gallon.

Well, it's definitely reached the tipping point for me - I now catch the train to work.

It costs over £50 to fill up, up from around £35 not so long ago. It's a 50 mile round-trip each day and takes 45-60 mins by car each way.

Now, it's a 20-25 min walk to the station, 30 mins on the train, then a bus or 20 min walk. The trains are frequent and reliable, and at the moment the walk is fine but I am not sure I will continue it in the winter. But I probably will. Just using a weekly season ticket costs less than fuel for the car. I am looking into getting an annual ticket.

I can't drive to the station as I refuse to pay £5 a day to park there (now there's an incentive to get people onto the trains!), and I know that walking is better for me

I am also actively signing up with liftshare schemes but no success to date.

In Louisiana in 2003 I bought gas at $1.29 a gallon.

I know because I wrote it on my road map.