THE Gasoline Price Thread (merged)

nocar · Intermediate Crude Joined: Nov 05, 2004 Posts: 666

Thank you Aahala, and Dude,

that was very imformative. So the original calculations overestimated the typical mileage for a vehicle. But they I suppose that for a household with several vehicles, the total cost of gasoline could be even higher.

It seems like Americans soon will have think about getting around in their cars in a new way.

The difference in miles per vehicle between Sweden and the
US is not that great, about 15,000 km vs 20,000 km. But then of course the Americans have more vehicles per household. From Dude's link I found that there is more than one vehicle per driver in the USA. Not so in Europe, although I do not have a link.

nocar

Fredrik

IgnoranceIsBliss

I would think the average US driver sees more than 12,000 miles per year. I personally know many people who commute at least 40+ miles each way to work. During the real estate boom in FL, people bought "cheaper" houses 40+ miles out from where they worked (metro Orlando) and now commute every day.

Also, if you lease a car from a dealer, they give you an allotment of 12k miles per year, and then charge you a fee per mile over. Most people go over, and that can add up to a few thousand.

I'm sure many people are putting their gas bills on the credit cards now. This will catch up to us soon, in the form of increasing late credit card payments and defaults (the "credit crisis" continues).

Here in north suburban Atlanta Georgia, USA, it seems like every other car on the road is a big SUV. (Chevy Tahoes and Suburbans rule). I've noticed some of these parked in public areas with "for sale" signs on them lately.

What scares me is the price of diesel. How are local schools going to keep the buses running? How are we going to keep trucks on the road to get our food & medicines to the shelves? How many smaller trucking operations will go belly up?

It seems like this "perfect storm" has hit us all of the sudden, but then again, the signs were probably there, we were just too busy feeling like instant millionaires during the real estate run up.

anagami

joeltrout

MarkJ · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 152

moawdtsi · Coal Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 13

Here is a little excel spreadsheet I made for gas prices you all are welcome to use, makes it easy to compare many different prices and mpgs at once.

http://www.missouri.edu/~gephardtt/gas.xls

tsakach · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 326

Hmm. Protesting high gas prices by walking, cycling and taking public transportation.

If enough people protested maybe the oil companies would stop all the price gouging and then everybody could start driving again.

Or maybe not. Let's see how long these protests continue.

TreeFarmer · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 26, 2007 Posts: 301

I heard on the radio yesterday, so take it with a BIG lump of salt, that when you buy gas 15% of the price is tax and 4% is oil company profit. (I'm sure this varies from state to state)

Keep on protesting...

TF

FoolYap

Ferretlover · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: THE Gas Price Thread

Drivers make run for the border to save on gas
$2.54 a gallon due to price supports — but lots of idling to get back to U.S.
SAN DIEGO - If there's pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it's about $2.54 — even less if you pay in pesos. …
MSNBC
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