Anyone else getting gas this cheap?

[adsm08]

Europe is through the roof as well. Heck, I think they are paying as much in taxes are they are for the fuel, perhaps more. SMDH....

Gas is worse than diesel over there, or at least it was.

I remember in the early 2000s my uncle was stationed in Stuttgart. He had his Tahoe shipped over to Germany and bought my aunt a diesel Audi wagon once they were there. He was getting fuel vouchers to pay for the taxes on the gasoline and in the three or four years they were there still spent more out of his own pocket on fuel for that beast than he spent on the purchase of the Audi and its fuel. The real kicker is that on top of all that he barely drove the thing because of the fuel prices.

 

[CUracing]

$2.25 in my part of Missouri today.

 

[sgtsandman]

Dropped to $2.859 here just recently. Cheapest it’s been in a while.


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[holyford86]

Gas is worse than diesel over there, or at least it was.

I remember in the early 2000s my uncle was stationed in Stuttgart. He had his Tahoe shipped over to Germany and bought my aunt a diesel Audi wagon once they were there. He was getting fuel vouchers to pay for the taxes on the gasoline and in the three or four years they were there still spent more out of his own pocket on fuel for that beast than he spent on the purchase of the Audi and its fuel. The real kicker is that on top of all that he barely drove the thing because of the fuel prices.

A friend of mine travels to Germany for work quite a bit, one of the times she was over there she sent back a picture of a mid 80s crew cab dualie 4x4 Chevy with a 454 in it (had a badge in the grille). all i could think about was how much it must cost to drive that over there. It looked so out of place on the side of a street in a German town.

 

[saskbill]

Part of the problem is the unAmerican measuring system you Canucks are using!

Europe is through the roof as well. Heck, I think they are paying as much in taxes are they are for the fuel, perhaps more. SMDH....

Well I am going to trust Colin's (1990RangerinSK) math - his numbers sound about right.

As you say, we have been measuring volume in Liters and distance in kilometers for some time now (though fuel tanks are the same as yours and will actually have a capacity in US Gallons, and land was laid out long ago and surveyed in miles. And lumber is still in 4x8 sheets and dimensional lumber and structural steel is still in nominal inches - though how a 2x4 can be 1.75 x 3.5 inches is still kinda mysterious)

Anyway, if anyone is interested:

An Imperial (old system used in Canada) gallon is 160 fluid ounces or 4.54 L

A US gallon is 128 fluid ounces or 3.78 L

A mile is 1.6 kilometers (roughly)

A US dollar is currently trading at $1.31 Cdn

Gas was up to about $1.25 per L in my part of Saskatchewan, but has subsided back to about $1.12 to $1.14 per L this last week or so.

So it does take an agile mind, a long back of an envelope, or a handy computer app to do the calculations, and the answer is generally depressing, so a lot of us don't bother.

Someone's observation about taxes being a lot of it is right on the money (ouch!). In Canada, our provinces and the feds take a (un)healthy cut of gasoline/diesel sales. And our Primeminister, ever eager to impress the UN, is getting set to impose a further carbon tax at the end of this year, though the provinces are increasingly in revolt. We do have a federal election coming up next fall, so it should be an interesting ride!

Update: Canadians pay on the average about 33% of the pump price in taxes (sometimes taxes on taxes), lower 30s out west. For a good detailed read on the Canadian gas tax situation, see the following link:

https://www.taxpayer.com/media/2018-GTHD-EN.pdf

 

[TxGasRacer]

$ 2.17 a Gal here in SouthEast Texas but we do have one of the biggest refineries on the Gulf Coast here in my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas

 

[saskbill]

One extremely useful tool for seeing gas price variations is GasBuddy.com

Users report prices in their area (and can qualify for prices for their reporting), and the results are tabulated, so you have a pretty good idea of prices that day (usually current within a few hours or better).

The prices are tabulated into eg: top 10 and worst 10 in your area, but the most useful feature is the maps:

https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?z=4

(US map displayed, you can also set to Canada) and then type in your city to see local price distibution. This can be VERY useful when someone decides to run a sale!

 

[Jim Oaks]

Its $1.96 here in the Dallas / Fort Worth area.

 

[1990RangerinSK]

One extremely useful tool for seeing gas price variations is GasBuddy.com

Users report prices in their area (and can qualify for prices for their reporting), and the results are tabulated, so you have a pretty good idea of prices that day (usually current within a few hours or better).

The prices are tabulated into eg: top 10 and worst 10 in your area, but the most useful feature is the maps:

https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?z=4

(US map displayed, you can also set to Canada) and then type in your city to see local price distibution. This can be VERY useful when someone decides to run a sale!

Gasbuddy also has an iOS app, and an Android app (for those of you who insist upon using that horrid OS). It was created by somebody from Saskatchewan.

 

[ozzy85]

It's still above $3/gal in the NW corner of Washington. It's falling, though. Oddly, we have plenty of refineries here.

 

[txgocartB3000#2]

$1.95 today HEB in San Marcos,TX.

Ray

 

[pjtoledo]

$1.99/9 near here. considering it's the day before Thanksgiving that's a friggin' miracle.

 

[Vincenthdfan]

Still over $3.30 a gallon here in lovely Olympia, Washington...home of taxation without representation!

We're literally taxed on everything here!

 

[det107]

I have bought gas at $2.71 gal but that is really out if my way. The other day I noticed $2.65 gal but time was limited to "pull over & fill er up"-

 

[Jim Oaks]

Still over $3.30 a gallon here in lovely Olympia, Washington...home of taxation without representation!

We're literally taxed on everything here!

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