Mr. Pickles Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 And there's the lovely exchange rate to switch from funny money to US dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdub Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 One US Dollar is equal to 1.377057 Canadian dollars as of today on Exchangerate.com. Money is the only thing my conversion program doesn't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denisb Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 if jdud's exchange is right and my calculator is right that would be aprox 2.75/gal, so I guess even if we Canuck have funny money it would still be more expensive for you American to cross the border.......eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87mudfinder Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 i just put the cd in with driving sounds on and pretend to drive in my backyard nowadays 91.2 today with a lineup but my pathfinders on a hoist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheel366 Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 Here in Jersey, we are around $2.05 for 87, but my Audi takes 93 so I'm now up to $2.15+. Thankfully the Mobil station here has 10 cents off on super on Mondays and Thursdays. I don't know what is worse, paying for super but getting better gas mileage for my car or paying for regular and my Pathfinder getting crappy gas mileage. My Audi has a 16 gallon tank and gets 400 miles to the tank is I don't mess around, but the pathy has a 21 gallon tank and if I'm lucky, I get 300 miles! SHEESH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 In Adelaide South Australia - petrol (unleaded) is $1.00 a litre and diesel $1.03 a litre. Not sure what that calculates in US but it still sounds expensive!! Buzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Nguyen Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 In Corpus Christi, I found a place that has regular unleaded for 1.77/gal but everywhere else is about 1.87/gal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87pathfinder4banger Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 In Adelaide South Australia - petrol (unleaded) is $1.00 a litre and diesel $1.03 a litre. Not sure what that calculates in US but it still sounds expensive!!Buzz you mean to tell me diesel is more expensive there??? that's wierd. here gas is at 99.9 a litre, no one wants to be the first to push it over 1.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Nguyen Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 OMG gas went up to 1.93 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Bah, ours has been sitting at $2.19 for weeks now. You guys got it cheap in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trentdub Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 I paid 2.25/gal. for 87 last night here in So.Cal. I haven't seen gas under 2.00 for months, even at Costco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Nguyen Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Does standard of living affect gas prices or is it the availabity/accessibility of gas? Referring to the closeness of a gas refinery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Most of the gas in Cali comes from the refineries that're actually located there. The rest is imported from overseas. A lot of it comes in through the East Bay area. So...I guess closeness to a refinery or import center doesn't have much to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Boy Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Jeez Buzz, can't believe diesel is more expensive than Petrol!!!!!!!!! Do you guys have to pay road user charges on top of that or is it included in the price like petrol?? I think your government is jipping you!!!! How can diesel be more expensive??????????? I just can't get my head around that. Diesel is about half the price of petrol here, but then we pay RUC on top of that seperatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Road usage charge? Not here. How's that work? Like a toll or something? That's why we sit around b*tching about where our tax dollars are going, because the roads are supposed to be rolled into the bill. But then that's why they talk about the $500 toilet seats in the Pentagon. The $$$ is obviously going somewhere... BTW, we're looking at $2.23 for 87 at the cheapest AM/PM Arco here, maybe a tad cheaper at Costco (Kent, WA). Its getting worse really quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Boy Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yeah road tax is included in the price of petrol, but not in diesel, so diesel is dirt cheap at the pump, but you have to pay road tax seperatly. You know, make a trip down to the Post Office and pay for them, you get a label that goes in your window with what your speedo said when you got it and how many Km's you have got from there. Last time i brought 10,000 km's worth of road tax, and that cost $NZ250. So that made the diesel per litre $NZ0.78. Price at pump has since gone up so it will be more expensive over all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Diesel Boy - Yep we are being ripped off big time. Unleaded went to $1.08.9c per litre and diesel was $1.04 ish on weekend!! Gov. says its related to the falling Aust dollar and the increase in crude oil prices overseas. What I can't understand is the fuel we use today wasn't refined yesterday. So if it was obtained say 6months ago at a lower price, who is getting the profit........... probably oil companies first and then government as they tax the fuel per litre!!! (higher price = higher revenue/tax) Also Australia has it's own oil resources (not 100%) so you would think the influence from overseas would be proportional to our dependence on the Middle East.......?????????? Am I looking at things all wrong???? Buzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cupples95 Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 This is my first real post. Here in Crossville, TN Hey 94pathytn, nice to here from someone in my neck of the woods. I live in West Tennessee. Gas here is from 1.94 to 1.99 for 87 Octane. Oh well, I guess we would spend that money somewhere, huh? sly sly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Boy Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 I honestly reckon its the gas stations that are the ones that are lossing out the worst over here!!!! They made the little money that they did not from selling the fuel but all the goddies inside the station like lollies, drinks,mags, etc. Now the prices are so high that people cringe when they see the price at the pump, march in the door, pay and march right back out again. They already spent enough on the gas with out buying other stuff too. Im just waiting to see stations closing down all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 I saw something once about how stations often only made something like 5 cents per gallon. Maybe it was more, but it was low and interesting to think about. Its the oil companies that are raking it in. And, for those of you not local to Western WA, there was a fire on a local pipeline the other day, so they had to shut down the area. Now they're saying it may have a nice little impact on prices and supply locally in the short term Fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdub Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 Wonder how many times Olympic Pipline is going to have a fire? Hopefully I won't have to fill up over the weekend. Cost $33 last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 This article gives an interesting breakdown of gas prices by state, as well as some countries around the world. Ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 Still at $2.18 per gallon for 87 octane. This sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdub Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 That's it? Lucky, $2.27 for 87 from Arco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 It was $2.26 the other day for 87octane. $35 for 3/4 of a tank. Greeeaaat. Washington, Oregon & California are highest in the nation. Guess that's the premium we pay to live in the best place. :secret: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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