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Thread: for all of you who hate paying for gas
Its really only $6.50 a gallon in the UK, but our true gas price is not reflected in comparison as tax on petrol here is about 300%...
(Also why can't sony just us PHPbb so we can post with firefox ffs)
mradept wrote:
In Australia it is $1.30 per litre. Thats about $5 per Gallon. 6 months ago it was 80 cents per Litre or $3.20 per Gallon.
even worse in sweden, 1.50 per litre or about 6 dollars a gallon then
ventilador wrote:Hey viejosoy de venezuela, de que parte eres caracas?respondeme...I leave in veenzuela to Gas is 10 cents even LESS! if you use economic type of gas and have a small car.Venezuela has the cheapest gas on world
what part of caracas are you from?
la california for me <
:-)
Hobbes76 wrote:
Cheer up fellas...maybe someone will invent a car that will run on Coke?
lol I wouldn't be surprised if that day came. After all, they DID make biodegradable fuel using corn. The name of it escapes me at the moment..
WizKid72 wrote:
Hobbes76 wrote:
Cheer up fellas...maybe someone will invent a car that will run on Coke?
lol I wouldn't be surprised if that day came. After all, they DID make biodegradable fuel using corn. The name of it escapes me at the moment..
and it even runs on current engines w00t
lol
ArMaGOD wrote:
WizKid72 wrote:
Hobbes76 wrote:
Cheer up fellas...maybe someone will invent a car that will run on Coke?
lol I wouldn't be surprised if that day came. After all, they DID make biodegradable fuel using corn. The name of it escapes me at the moment..
and it even runs on current engines w00t
lol
yes it does.. I think the corn fuel is a form of alcohol.. the chemical kind, not drinking kind.. isn't it Ethanol?
ventilador wrote:You know where is el cafetal? South of caracas, well there.
Yup I think I know where your talking about
Gotta love the Canadian government for this. Alberta produces a lot of oil and cereal. Cereal is also very important because it's used to make beer, but that's another story.
We produce enough oil in alberta and in the central provinces to be self-suficient (spelling?). Meaning we COULD have really cheap gas here in Canada if we kept it for our own needs. But *no*, we sell it all to the US and other prople i'm not sure, and we buy what we need to use ourselvs. That way, the governement makes money selling the oil, makes money taxing the imports back, and taxes again when we buy it at the pump.
I feel like doing some math here, just for fun. Gas is taxed at close to 45% here, it's added to the price of the gas so it's half hidden. That means that 1$'s worth of oil costs me 1.45$. To have 1.45$ in my pocket, after all the income tax has been deducted from my salary, I need to earn 3.37$.
So, when I fillup my little civic and it costs me 40$, I actually have 11.87$'s worth of product, and 28.13$ in taxes.
Message Edited by DrNeek on 09-02-2005 06:44 AM