No, $4 petrol is not expensive...

TheVan · 17-06-2008 11:19PM #1

Stupid Americans are driving me up the wall with this moaning about the price of petrol. Its all over the news all the time and teh internet. They're moaning about $4-a-gallon petrol....

1 gallon = 3.78 litres
which is $1.058 per litre
which is €0.70 cents a litre whereas Irish people are paying about €1.20 a litre!

I mean jebus get over it and try walking somewhere if it bothers you that much.

Rant over

kippy · 17-06-2008 11:25PM

It was $1.00 a gallon last time I was over there, about 6 years ago.
A larger relative jump in prices than that which we have had I think.

Their cars also eat petrol with 4+ litre engines the norm (thats their fault I know)
It may force them to review their car buying habits.
Edit: Walking in the US is generally not an option size of country etc.....

Kippy

miceal · 17-06-2008 11:27PM

kippy wrote: »

Their cars also eat petrol with 4+ litre engines the norm (thats their fault I know)
It may force them to review their car buying habits.
Kippy

Have to agree here!

There is no need for a family car to have a V6 or V8 engine!

Imagine if all the cars in the US alone were standard engines i wonder on that alone how much oil the world would save

Giblet · 17-06-2008 11:51PM

We pay heavy taxes on our petrol, they don't. We get goods and services like free health care from said taxes, they don't. Also, without taxes, they pay about the same as we do, or even more.

The Artist · 18-06-2008 01:44AM

maybe getting piped for oil from usa to the european countries will solve it?

kowloon · 18-06-2008 01:47AM

I particularly enjoyed their plea to China to restrict their usage of oil

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phantom_lord · 18-06-2008 01:49AM

TheVan wrote: »

Stupid Americans are driving me up the wall with this moaning about the price of petrol.

how are they stupid for moaning about paying $4 for something that previously cost $1?

The Artist · 18-06-2008 01:54AM

TheVan;56282186Stupid Americans are driving me up the wall with this moaning about the price of petrol. Its all over the news all the time and teh internet. They're moaning about $4-a-gallon petrol....

i thought that the americans say gas rather than petrol.
$4-a-gallon-gas......:D

Plug · 18-06-2008 08:07AM

TheVan wrote: »

Stupid Americans are driving me up the wall with this moaning about the price of petrol. Its all over the news all the time and teh internet. They're moaning about $4-a-gallon petrol....

1 gallon = 3.78 litres
which is $1.058 per litre
which is €0.70 cents a litre whereas Irish people are paying about €1.20 a litre!

I mean jebus get over it and try walking somewhere if it bothers you that much.

Rant over

Americans can't develop good engines. They probably get 3-8 miles to the gallon.

Steve_o · 18-06-2008 09:30AM

We've had to deal with a 40c - 50c rise in petrol prices, whereas they've had to deal with a $3 rise...

I agree that Americans need to have a look at the cars they drive, maybe adopting smaller European cars instead of the 8 litre 4x4's etc. that they like so much..

Victor · 18-06-2008 09:37AM

Steve_o wrote: »

We've had to deal with a 40c - 50c rise in petrol prices,

Per Litre.

whereas they've had to deal with a $3 rise...

Per US Gallon.

suspectdevice · 18-06-2008 09:44AM

their cars are so cheap and up to now their gas has been so cheap, they have had little to complain about. make their cars the same price as ours here and you will see the average engine size drop by half. its the outlay that'll kill them.

petrol is a daily expense, people tend to cope with inflated prices for a long time after significant increases. then we get used to it and our longer term financial plans are put on hold. especially something that the media make out to be so volatile, its like we are always hoping it will go back to previous levels soon, that the crisis is temporary, ba'stards. ours has gone from €0.80 per litre to €1.47 and we are still buying it.

we are not militant enough, irish people live in fear of complaining, otherwise supermarkets would have been kicked out a long time ago

Steve_o · 18-06-2008 09:47AM

I know they're dealing in Gallons, i'm merely pointing out that they have had to deal with a sharper price rise in the same space of time... they've jumped from spended $1 - $4, whereas we've jumped from 80c ish - €1.20 ish...

Glowing · 18-06-2008 09:48AM

Apparently, there are more motorists running out of 'gas' because their $20 dollar topup doesn't get them as far as it used to!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/surprising-consequence-of-gas-prices.php

Mahatma coat · 18-06-2008 09:54AM

on the topic of engine sizes, the bigger engines have their place, I live in Australia over here the 4.0L is the norm too, big engines like that can be very efficient if you are doing a longhaul drive, I have a 4.2L Landcruiser for anything which is over an hour each way, tho I also have a 318i for nippin around town etc, both cars have very different purposes, it would be massivley inefficent to try to run the BMW up the highway at 110 for a few hours ans y'd be overworkin the engine, at the same time I'd never consider the Cruiser for any round town stuff.

then of course theres the Diesel delivery truck, Fvck the price of petrol it goes up AND DOWN, Diesel never gets any cheaper

Dragan · 18-06-2008 10:00AM

Comparing the price of an item like that between two seperate economic entities without taking into account minimum wage, average salaries and cost of living = epic failage tbh.

Gone West · 18-06-2008 10:14AM

Also, when you're driving a 6 litre jeep, it burns through gas a lot quicker than in Ireland.
I've seen digital readings of 8MPG

Ponster · 18-06-2008 10:17AM

Dragan wrote: »

Comparing the price of an item like that between two seperate economic entities without taking into account minimum wage, average salaries and cost of living = epic failage tbh.

+1

Indeed. Had the Irish prices jumped from €1 to €4 in the same period I'm pretty sure we'd be allowed our own rant too.

It's just one of those things that they have got used to being cheap just as in the past 40 years we've gotten used to food being dirt cheap but it doesn't look like it will be in the future.

The Artist · 18-06-2008 10:21AM

quote=suspectdevice;56284605
we are not militant enough, irish people live in fear of complaining, otherwise supermarkets would have been kicked out a long time ago

+1,000

Gone West · 18-06-2008 10:23AM

Alan Ford wrote: »

+1,000

You don't even count as +1 person, never mind 1000

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