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Offline Bob_Roller

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Fuel Prices
« on: August 08, 2009, 09:46:37 AM »
Kinda curious what fuel prices are around the world these days, significantly lower than this time last year .

Price for unleaded regular at the local station I usually fill up at is : $2.60US/US gallon, which works out to be around .49 euro/liter .
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Offline Lucky_Lou

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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2009, 02:01:06 PM »
You would faint if you filled up in the UK you will struggle to find anything under a pound a Litre 1 pound is tradeing at 1.65 dollars today i was on holiday in Wales last week and some garages were at !.15 a Litre thats about $5 a gallon i think???.
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2009, 02:14:28 PM »
That's about $6.24-7.17US/ US gallon .

That's a pretty steep price from our point of view !!!!!!!
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Offline montmil

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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2009, 02:31:25 PM »
About $2.39/gal around my village in North Texas.  Monte
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2009, 02:55:41 PM »
Hey Lou, how much of that is tax?  We pay about $.40/gal in tax to the greedy bastidges in Washington who then take our money and give it away.  I work in the oil patch, have for over 30 years, and I've seen prices rise and fall, boom & bust, several times.  You'll never convince me that the spike we saw last year wasn't orchestrated by OPEC and the Axis of Evil as a way to influence politics in the USA.  Guess what?  It worked!

If you want to get an idea how prices are going to be in the coming months then monitor the worldwide rig count.  If the rig count goes up, then the price of oil is going up.  If it starts to fall then oil prices are going to fall.  Right now we're kind of holding steady.
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2009, 03:06:45 PM »
were are taxed to death the bulk of it 65% i think is fuel duty then theres 15% vat on top???  tax on tax?? then we pay road fund tax currently 65 pounds for rolling r65 rubber on the road if you think thats bad you should try operating a commercial vehicle 4k road tax for a truck i give up wheres the social security office maybe monte could point me in the direction of the mouse mats
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2009, 06:42:14 PM »
I never really pay attention.  I have a hundred mile a day commute and I'm not willing to get killed by a logging truck at 3:30 some rainy morning on my bicycle, so I buy gas.   >:(

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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2009, 04:31:24 AM »
Filled the bike today - $1.69 a litre for 91 octane.Fuel prices went up 5 cents a litre this week.
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2009, 07:34:22 PM »
$1.31 for a litre regular non ethanol unleaded over here at the moment.
$1.41 /l for 95 octaine.
$1.46 /l for 98 octaine.
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Offline Bob_Roller

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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2009, 07:44:41 PM »
Prices have started creeping up here in the Phoenix area, and with a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, it's sure to go up, just because it can .

Current price for 87 octane unleaded is $2.66US per US gallon, looks like that works out to be around $.85AU per liter (litre?) .
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2009, 08:03:13 PM »
Interestingly for Australia at least - diesel is $1.14 per litre.

Historically - for the past as long as I can remember diesel has always been about 10-20c/l more expensive.
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2009, 08:14:23 PM »
Here in the US, the price of diesel has been about 20% less than auto fuel, then around July of '08, it was as high as 25% more than auto fuel, currently, it's around 8% less than auto fuel here in Phoenix .
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2009, 08:42:55 PM »
I'd love to get my hands on one of these
http://www.dieselmotorcycles.eu/

Phenominal range.
Not sure about the engine hangin down like it is.
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2009, 09:08:49 PM »
Here's a diesel Kawasaki single cylinder bike the US Marine Corp has been using for a few years .

http://www.dieselbike.net/kawasaki.htm

Not available to the general public .
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Re: Fuel Prices
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2009, 09:26:12 PM »
How the the US marines enjoy it?
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