What Are You Paying For Gasoline at the Pump now?

LadyEmeraude said:
filled up today and at $3:64 per gallon regular.
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Lucky you. I'm convinced that our fuel that was once sold in gallons has been changed to litres to make it appear less.
A US gallon is twenty percent smaller than a UK or Imperial gallon (8 pints.) I paid £1.73 a litre for diesel. Translated into
US gallons and dollars it would be just short of $8 a gallon. And that £1:73 has fallen to that price, at it's peak it reached £2 per litre.
 
Harry Le Hermit said:
£7.42 per UK gallon, equates to USD $7.47 per U.S. Gallon. Having said that, the U.K. petrol octane rating and refinery formulation is nearer to U.S. Mid Grade. This formulation results in much less ethanol additives being used in the U.K.
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For one of my cars the manufacture recommends premium fuel, so I use 99 octane at the petrol station. It contains 5% ethanol. At the same UK petrol station there is regular petrol with 95 octane, which contains 10% ethanol.

What’s the ethanol level in the US?

I believe the octane rating in the US is measured differently to the UK. You may be aware that in the UK the “Research Octane Number” is used. In the US they use an average of the Research Octane Number (RON) and Motor Octane Number (MON). Meaning a US rating of 91 octane is pretty much same as 97 octane in the UK.
 
Magna-Carta said:
For one of my cars the manufacture recommends premium fuel, so I use 99 octane at the petrol station. It contains 5% ethanol. At the same UK petrol station there is regular petrol with 95 octane, which contains 10% ethanol.

What’s the ethanol level in the US?

I believe the octane rating in the US is measured differently to the UK. You may be aware that in the UK the “Research Octane Number” is used. In the US they use an average of the Research Octane Number (RON) and Motor Octane Number (MON). Meaning a US rating of 91 octane is pretty much same as 97 octane in the UK.
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Yep, and basically your regular of 95RON is our mid grade or AKI 89. The difference being the in catalytic reforming process.
 
Wow, some of these prices are really great! I paid $3.29 per gallon the other day which is down from $3.59-69 all month. We can't catch a break around here with high gas prices.
 
I'm not paying anything because I don't drive. But Tuesday when I walked past a gas station it was charging $3.05 for regular. My son gets his gas from Costco; I'll have to ask him next time he goes what he paid.
 
My gas is currently between $3.75 to $3.79 a gallon a gallon for regular unleaded, well above the present national average due to Pennsylvania’s high gas taxes. I don’t know what they’re doing with the tax revenue as many secondary roads are patchwork… 😾
 
2.95/gal as of yesterday. Seems like a dream.
Magna-Carta said:
For one of my cars the manufacture recommends premium fuel, so I use 99 octane at the petrol station. It contains 5% ethanol. At the same UK petrol station there is regular petrol with 95 octane, which contains 10% ethanol.

What’s the ethanol level in the US?
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I think there is usually a statement on pumps to the effect that "This gas has no more than 10% ethanol. I think it says 10%, but maybe it's 20%.

Apparently, ethanol is not a good thing. It's "OK" for cars and trucks, but smaller engines like chainsaws and lawn mowers can suffer damage from ethanol, but my actual experience is limited. I have had fewer problems with my mower when I switched away from ethanol, so I think maybe this true. All my small engine repair guys are adamant about not using gas with ethanol. But what is meant by "OK" for cars and trucks? It doesn't do as much damage? How good of a thing is that?
 
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