The price of gasoline (petrol)

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:27 am

I was wondering over my morning coffee how the price of gasoline is affecting anyone's summer touring plans. Are you staying closer to home? Or is it business as usual?

If it is business as usual, are you increasing performance fees to cover fuel costs? In my area, the cheapest is hovering right around $2.89/gal. USD. How long this will last is anyone's guess.

JimK

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:35 am

James thank your lucky stars, here in UK cheapest gas (petrol) is £4.80 a gallon, at present exchange rate that must be something like $9.50 dollars.

admin · Post by **admin** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:44 am

I wonder what a gallon of coffee is worth?

headbanger · Post by **headbanger** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:00 am

Now hang on for a mo... A US gallon & an English gallon are different aren't they?
Down under we're paying A$0.123/litre. A$1.00=US$0.845 so approx US$1.00 per litre and approx half is govt tax.

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:20 am

Gas prices didn't stop me or anyone I know from going on vacation this year. Prices seem to be around $2.75 - 2.89 per gallon.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:51 am

It's currently $1.13.5 per litre Cdn here for regular.
As far as I'm concerned the proper price is 57c per litre.
The rest is theft, organized crime, or whatever you'd like to call it.

I'd like to add more, but it's political, & that stuff's off limits.

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:18 pm

I get premium for $3-3.50 a gallon depending on whether I fill up in NY or NJ.

By my calculations, since I drove 35K miles in the past year, if I had purchased a Prius instead of a BMW I would have saved roughly 3000 gallons of gasoline.

Even if my numbers are off a bit, seems I could 100% finance a Prius, and pay the difference in insurance, but still save money, so I'm doing it. I'll retain the 5 series bimmer for when I want to look sharp.

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:41 pm

Around 1 dollar and 8 cents per litre here in Atlantic Canada.

britye · Post by **britye** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:26 pm

I'm heading up to Detroit burb's in August for vacation. Drive to Cedar Point in Ohio from there then back up to Detroit and Harsens Island for 10 days. I'm not happy about gas prices but I'm going anyway

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:52 pm

I'm looking at starting a 3,000 mile journey on Wednesday or Thursday. On the trip back home, I'll probably be pulling a U-Haul trailer.

scala · Post by **scala** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:01 pm

Imperial (UK) gallon is legally defined as 4.54609 litres (~277.42 cu in), which is about 1.2 U.S. liquid gallons.

as roy says, in the uk we are paying about £4.80 a gallon.about 9 or 10 dollars.

longboard_ric · Post by **longboard_ric** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:44 am

Gerry, I assume you mean $1.23/litre, and yes, Govt taxes make up about half of that.

I overcame the problem of high fuel prices about 15 years ago by converting to LPG. Current price here is $0.42/litre, and it has generally been about one third the price of petrol. Consumption is the same as petrol. Given the mileage covered in those three cars over the last 15 years I estimate the savings at around $35000 to $40000.

The only question I have is "Where did the money go?"

headbanger · Post by **headbanger** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:04 am

Yes Shane, 1.23.

I had a 5L HZ on LPG. I went everywhere with my foot flat to the boards for $20.00 a tankful, lol. Back then I drove to Broome and back for $150!
We're paying between 50 & 60c/litre for LPG over here. A ripoff....
Once they were called service stations now they should be called extortion stations!

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:19 am

I didn't expect folks to cut back on their vacation travels at all. What I was really asking about is touring musicians and how they handle fuel costs. I see (diesel) tour buses here in Lawrence, KS quite often and presume that bands and solo artists continue as though nothing out of the ordinary has happened.

I haven't toured hardly since the late '90s and was just wondering.

JimK

dean712 · Post by **dean712** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:00 pm

The price of gasoline, along with a desire to be better members of our environment and yet drive a reasonably priced car that meets our needs, led us to buy a new Toyota Yaris as our new car:

It's not for everyone, and there are several good competitors out there, but we really like it. It gets 40mpg, it has a hatchback and rear folddown seats, and, to be honest, I really like it as a little zip-mobile around town. It is just one example; Honda, Chevy, Ford, Hyundai, etc. all have competitive models that get great gas mileage, too. We have to start somewhere, though. We just can't continue our costly and wasteful ways.