Think a gallon of gas is expensive?

I was complaining about $1.76 in the states until I came back up to Canada and am paying $.85 a liter... $3.40CDN a gallon.


Of course, that's only like $1.80 in real dollars. :D
 
Hi All-

SteelDriver said:
All true, but how many people use 20 gallons of any of those every week? ;)
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I once knew a guy at work who DID use about 20 gallons of musk cologne per week. As an aside, he SHOULD have used about 20 gallons of mouthwash...for starters. What a hideous man he was!

Looks like we need to extract a bit of oil out of ANWR to keep the supply flowing.

~ Blue Jays ~
 
faramir said:
Today's price here (for most commonly used unleaded 95 octane fuel) is $1.10+ per liter which comes to approximately $4.16 per gallon.
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That's a very high octane content.

Most people over here run 87.

The highest that I've ever seen at a service station is 94, and that's pretty rare.

What octane level is considered "premium" over there?
 
fishbulb said:
That's a very high octane content.
The highest that I've ever seen at a service station is 94, and that's pretty rare.

What octane level is considered "premium" over there?
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I'm not sure what "premium" means in the US but as i said, 95 octane is most commonly used fuel for Otto-type engines over here. There's the choice of 91 octane (used in relatively few cars that i know of and even then mixed or alternating with 95 octane), 95 octane and 98 octane.

The 98 octane gives a bit of extra oomph when used in certain engines - VW has an 1.6 liter engine for example that can run on either 95 or 98 octane, but only gives 100+ HP with the 98 octane. Most cars don't need 98 octane and won't perform any better (as far as i know) with 98 octane if they were made to run on 95 octane fuel. I suppose the 98 octane would be "premium" for cars over here, although most people don't need it or use it.

Soa: i totally missed (misread actually) the pound sign - brain fart on my part, i read it as $ :o Hey, it rhymes ...
 
I see.

In the US the common grades are 87, 89, and 91 or 93.

87= Regular
89= Mid-grade
91-93= Premium

There is usually a 9-10 cent difference between the price per gallon of each grade.

Most cars run fine on 87. Only those cars with high-compression engines (or those designed for leaded fuels) need to run the higher grades. Many people don't understand this and pay money they don't have to for the high-octane gasoline.
 
There's more than one way to measure octane. In the US the octane rating on the pump is the average (mean) of research octane and motor octane.
 
Cougar, it would be interesting to see whether there's any difference in determining octane rating for fuel in Europe and in the US - perhaps we all use same juice, just call it different names ? Wouldn't be a first time either (think of the various steel nomenclatures :rolleyes: ).

fishbulb: cars that require leaded fuel don't meet the ecological criteria in most EU countries nowadays i believe so they cannot pass the yearly inspection, therefore they may not be used anymore (oldtimers are exempt from this regulation). Those that still run usually use 98 octane fuel with additives that make unleaded fuel usable in older engine. Those fuel additives cost quite a bit, in addition to more expensive fuel it's far more convenient to just scrap the old junk and get something kless obsolete (running on 95 octane). Leaded fuel is not sold anymore in any of the EU countries where i've been for years now.
 
Pumps are 91.5/litre for 87 here...

3.7854 litres per US gallon = 3.463641 CAD = 2.863236 USD
4.5461 litres per UK gallon = 4.1596815 CAD = 3.4386218 USD or 1.8238393 GBP

yes I'm bored :p
 
Average around here "Upstate, NY" is $2.20/gal.. But there is this small farm supply store about 10 minutes from where I live that is always like .40 cheaper for some reason. I don't think they make any $ off it, kind of like a favor to the farmers around here.
 
Cougar Allen said:
That's nothing -- the ink for your inkjet printer runs about $1500 per gallon if you're stoopid enough to buy it in the printer manufacturer's cartridges. Do the math.... :eek:
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:o

Uh...how else do you get it?
 
johnniet: buy a refill kit and do it yourself. a box of colour and a box of black will last me about 10 months, at around 50-60 total... or we have a service that refills cartridges for $15 each... what are you gonna do?
 
my corvette uses premium (one of the few cars that really need it) and i have never seen anything over 93 octane(not since the late '60s anyway), wish i could find some 95 or 98, am sure it would help, but i look for higher octane and have never ran across it, i dont see why folks would run 93 in just anything, oh it works fine if that was all available, but the std auto works fine on 89 or so.
 
Here in New Zealand we have a choice of 91 octane, 96 octane, or 98 octane. No leaded fuel sold here.

I can't remember how much it costs though, damned if I ever even bother looking. I mean, I live out in the country and I don't really have much of a choice. Whatever it costs, I pay. When you live out here you either drive to the store, or you die.

I use 98 or 96 in my toyota Mr2, and 91 in my 4x4 mini-van.
 
Lone Hunter said:
Gas is still cheap.

When you adjust for inflation gas cost close to $3 a gallon in 1981.
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Adjusting for inflation doesn't really mean much. Gas didn't cost $3/gallon in 1981. By today's inflated standards maybe it did, but that doesn't change the fact that we're paying more real dollars now than ever before (not inflated 1981 dollars).

I put about 12 gallons of mid-grade in tonight, came out at just over $29 at $2.259 a gallon.

I feel bad for bitching in the summer of 2003 when gas was $1.40. When I got my license in 1997, gas was less than a dollar a gallon.

Tonight I came to the conclusion, while getting raped out of hard earned money, that I'm not gonna bitch and complain anymore. What good's it gonna do, really? I like my car a lot. It's fun to drive, and on long trips gets about 30mpg (only around 12 in the city where I do most of my driving though). It's fairly new (1997 Ford Thunderbird) and has less than 95,000 miles... I can't justify wanting a new car.
 
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