debodun
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- way upstate in New York, USA
I have to buy gas every other time I do a meal delivery. It's about 40 miles (including the trip from my house to the meal pick up point and from there back home after I'm done).
Gasoline price when I bought today
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jimintoronto
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4.54 liters in an Imperial gallon times $1.61 equals $7.30 CDN. Were you using the US gallon in your calculations ? In any case it ain't cheap. Jimb.
PeppermintPatty
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Close enough . I round it off.
We pay $161 a litre . There 4. 54 lites to a gallon and I rounded it off. I didnāt use US currency. I rounded off the litres instead of cents
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MarkD
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Iāve always thought gas prices are ridiculously low. Donāt want to pay more of course. But when it cost $2 or less per gallon it wasnāt all that much more than distilled water.
JBR
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Paid $1.49 (Cdn) $6.76/gal. yesterday for regular, in Kelowna. It was $1.54 or more elsewhere in the BC Interior, as we drove home.
My wife and I bought a new car last June, it isn't electric. A family member of ours has four EV's and are sold on it being the to go. I am negative about EV's for three reasons. We live in a rural area, haven't seen any charging stations nearby, the initial cost is absurd, and the power grid can't tolerate the envisioned demand compared to the mandated dream. Ford plainly showed they couldn't continue to absorb losses even if buyers are subsidized.
Think about this. When you buy gasoline you pay a steep per gallon fuel tax to maintain roads. EV's aren't subject to that tax, although a few plans have been floated at low altitude to level that playing field. EV's are much heavier and will put more strain on the structure of roads and bridges. Finally, sales of EV's are federally subsidized, so you know who is paying for that, You Are. Now doesn't that amount to double taxation. Then look at the replacement cost of a battery and just wait till the landfills are full of lithium from the batteries. If the market could support it they would succeed.
I will never buy an EV for all the reasons @TennVet stated and MORE!
Fortunately by the time this current dream of going totally EV comes around, if I'm still alive, I likely won't be driving and if I am, there'll still be used gas powered vehicles around (and hopefully gas to power them?)
OK; I'm over it now ...
Fortunately by the time this current dream of going totally EV comes around, if I'm still alive, I likely won't be driving and if I am, there'll still be used gas powered vehicles around (and hopefully gas to power them?)
OK; I'm over it now ...
Gotta love the Simpsons. Harkens back to days of Archy Bunker in a way. Tilting windmills and shouting in vane.
George1959
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In my region of Germany a liter of gasoline is ā¬ 1.80 minimum, which makes 7.37 US dollars per (US) gallon.
debodun
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- way upstate in New York, USA
There will come a day when nobody will be able to purchase gasoline powered hardware.
CallMeKate
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Makes ya wonder what ol' Arch would have to say about many of the things that are going on in the country today. I can almost hear Edith telling him to calm down before he has a coronary.
debodun
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- way upstate in New York, USA
In the end, it was Edith that had the coronary.Makes ya wonder what ol' Arch would have to say about many of the things that are going on in the country today. I can almost hear Edith telling him to calm down before he has a coronary.
Mobilman44
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Hi,
Before I give my spiel, I need to disclose that I worked for 40 years in the oil industry. I worked at 6 refineries, one USA accounting office, and one global accounting office. To paraphrase, "the oil business has been very, very good to me", and I'm proud to have been a part of it.
Objectively speaking (and I'm really trying here), we are darn fortunate to be able to pull in any one of thousands of gas stations and fill up our tanks.
It is hard to fathom - even for me - the route that crude oil took to end up at the local station. The add-on costs for: getting it out of the ground, moving it to terminals, moving thru pipelines (mostly) to refineries, going thru the refining process, moving it to finished product terminals, adding in the "additives" (note, before this the oil was generic), then moving to distributors, and then to your local gas station. Whew!
And the above doesn't take into consideration the global trading, and all the influences on crude market pricing - real and perceived.
I live a couple of miles from I-45, a very major thoroughfare here in Texas. When I see all those vehicles flying buy, and its always rush hour here, well I just marvel that most all of these vehicles have to be able to regularly buy gasoline or diesel, and they can - without a problem.
Before I give my spiel, I need to disclose that I worked for 40 years in the oil industry. I worked at 6 refineries, one USA accounting office, and one global accounting office. To paraphrase, "the oil business has been very, very good to me", and I'm proud to have been a part of it.
Objectively speaking (and I'm really trying here), we are darn fortunate to be able to pull in any one of thousands of gas stations and fill up our tanks.
It is hard to fathom - even for me - the route that crude oil took to end up at the local station. The add-on costs for: getting it out of the ground, moving it to terminals, moving thru pipelines (mostly) to refineries, going thru the refining process, moving it to finished product terminals, adding in the "additives" (note, before this the oil was generic), then moving to distributors, and then to your local gas station. Whew!
And the above doesn't take into consideration the global trading, and all the influences on crude market pricing - real and perceived.
I live a couple of miles from I-45, a very major thoroughfare here in Texas. When I see all those vehicles flying buy, and its always rush hour here, well I just marvel that most all of these vehicles have to be able to regularly buy gasoline or diesel, and they can - without a problem.
I guess Meathead might be out there protesting. I don't think today's snowflakes could take the philosophy of good old Arch.Makes ya wonder what ol' Arch would have to say about many of the things that are going on in the country today. I can almost hear Edith telling him to calm down before he has a coronary.