Lister Engine Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: listerboy on March 24, 2008, 07:32:59 PM
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For our friends in the UK...is this article accurate?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=540445&in_page_id=1770
If so, anyone want to go in on a barge-full from the US to the UK? We could park it 3 miles off-shore and make a bundle at $8 and all would be happy (except for the feds).
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It went past that last week, we saw £1.169per litre, highest-ever.
Oil is down from $111 a barrel to $101 per, now, so hopefully the prices will start down again.
Peter
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How many liters are there to a gallon? :'(
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How many liters are there to a gallon? :'(
www.onlineconversion.com/
(Don't forget that UK gallons are larger than US gallons)
Peter
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Rather depends on the size of the gallon. Are you mixing currencies and volumetric measure? We do not buy gallons. It is metric now. It is only Americans who buy gallons.
Government did not raise fuel tax in the budget, but that is because they are getting 17.5% tax on the 20% increases we have seen recently - an extra tidy sum for them to squander!
Regards, RAB
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3.785 liters/U.S. gallon
4.546 liters/Imperial gallon
Quinn
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Yeah, I keep wondering what's going on. I mean, I do that all the time, and it's nothing new to me, but specifically as regards fuel prices, when oil was $20/barrel a few years ago, gas was about $1/gallon. Now oil is over $100/barrel, and gas is about $3.60 locally. So a 5x increase in petroleum cost translates into a 3.6X increase in gas costs. That doesn't make sense. Wondering if the increase is being cached somewhere, just waiting to be unleashed.
[Edit: The cynic in me wonders if maybe after the next President assumes power there will be some shakeout in fuel prices. Are they being manipulated domestically? They certainly are being internationally.]
Quinn
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We do not buy gallons. It is metric now. It is only Americans who buy gallons.
Regards, RAB
That is so Texans won't feel silly looking wearing 45.4 litre hats. :D
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That would be a smaller 38 litre Hat I think
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Actually, gas & diesel prices depend more on the stockpiles built up in the tank farms than the price of oil. Yank a couple of refineries out of production like we have here in Western Canada right now and you'll see $1.20/litre prices (like we have now). It's supposed to be dependent on "market availability" which is short hand for "greed". What they really mean is that if you have to have their product, and it's in short supply, they can gouge you for it all they want. Just look at what the big drug companies charge for the really important drugs that you have to have to save your life.
Stan
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Shop online at " Pet meds ".....
No side effects....
Well I have these urges to siff peoples bumbs and piss on fire hydrants....
but in the porn industry no one realy notices...
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Rather depends on the size of the gallon. Are you mixing currencies and volumetric measure? We do not buy gallons. It is metric now. It is only Americans who buy gallons.
Government did not raise fuel tax in the budget, but that is because they are getting 17.5% tax on the 20% increases we have seen recently - an extra tidy sum for them to squander!
Regards, RAB
No, but most North American folks will think in gallons rather than litres and many forget that there are 'different' gallons when converting.
Peter
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Peter.
Yes I think.
The original posting was in dollars and imperial gallons. That was the mixture I was referring to.
Regards, RAB
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That would be a smaller 38 litre Hat I think
Oops, my mistake. I must have been thinking of those silly Calgarians. ;)
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I dont know if you noticed but the article was quoting price per gallon and miles per gallon.Units we haven't used for years but people still think in gallons and mpg.
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I know what you Mean.....
I bought My Volkswaggen based on its fuel comsumption in MPGs.
I buy fuel in litres and know good from bad ecconomy ( can tell when the wife has been driving by how much more fuel than normal is being burned ) and keep track of it in kms but these are nonsence numbers to me untill I convert back to imp gallons and miles...
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I know what you Mean.....
I bought My Volkswaggen based on its fuel comsumption in MPGs.
I buy fuel in litres and know good from bad ecconomy ( can tell when the wife has been driving by how much more fuel than normal is being burned ) and keep track of it in kms but these are nonsence numbers to me untill I convert back to imp gallons and miles...
I suffer from the same disability for old dogs to learn new tricks Doug. :(
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Well I had to pay £1.30 ltr today :'( when is it going to stop.
On the plus side I did find water on our land today its not oil but still exciting all the same. All the test say its drinkable apart form the Coliform bacteria which needs 48 hrs to culture.