bill to allow feds to cap gas prices at 2.49!!!!!!

[dsirkle]

Wholly crackers you are OLD

You got that right.

[joepythons]

You got that right.

Its ok

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Pat, I can remember when I used to pay 30 cents per gallon.

But back then 30 cents was like $6, right!?? :-)

JonV

[EvilDes]

I meant naive to the extent of not realizing that you guys have plenty of problems of your own. Many Americans seem to think that the world exists only in North America.

Gotcha!

In regards to our National Health Service, yes, it's funded by taxes, but not by the fuel duty that we currently pay. It comes from our National Insurance which we pay out of our wages each payday. We also have income tax, which I'm sure you guys do aswell?

My typical wage slip has my monthly salary, with deductions for PAYE tax (Pay As You Earn) and National insurance. An old wage slip I have with me now, shows monthly earnings of £1541.67. PAYE tax - £217.60, and National Insurance is - £119.57, leaving me with £1204.50 going into my bank account. So I basically work a week out of every month to pay for whatever the government decides to do with our money. We also have to pay council tax which is about £120 per month (this depends on your house and where it is, so rises and falls according to the size of your house, and it's location).

Currently, our government is taking approximately 90-95p in fuel duty for the £1.20 we're paying at the pumps, which is what's angering many motorists, when other European countries are paying a hell of a lot less. A report came out yesterday saying that our government gained £1.7billion in revenue from the fuel duty they put on, only a week after Gordon Brown said he can do nothing about our fuel prices.

Either way, we all seem to be in the same boat with the petrol prices at the minute. I can understand your prices being lower however, as your octane is a lot less than ours, as technically, we have a slightly better quality of fuel. Do you guys have super unleaded over there? If so, what's it's octane?

This really fascinates me at the minute, seeing how your economy is working with first hand views from the people themselves. So sorry if I'm waffling on a bit!

[neilgolli]

I remember when Clinton was in office paying 1.26... yeah... bring that back!

Yes, if Clinton would have allowed drilling in Alaska, we'd still be there, but he said "even if we begin drilling now it will be 10 years before we see any type of impact" He said that in 1994, we would have been seeing better prices at the pump for the last 4 years. Rather than smoking raunchy cigars, he should have had some foresight....

[Jerhart]

But back then 30 cents was like $6, right!?? :-)

JonV

Does this work like dog-years?

[dsirkle]

Gas was considered to be very cheap back then. Water was virtually free.

[dsirkle]

Either way, we all seem to be in the same boat with the petrol prices at the minute. I can understand your prices being lower however, as your octane is a lot less than ours, as technically, we have a slightly better quality of fuel. Do you guys have super unleaded over there? If so, what's it's octane?

Regular grade petrol = 87. midgrade = 89. premium = 91 or 92 octane.

[EvilDes]

Ahh right. That's quite a difference to us then, as I said our lowest is 95 (normal), 97 (super) and 99 (premium). Thanks for the little insight into American petrol anyway

[Gloryhound]

Regular grade petrol = 87. midgrade = 89. premium = 91 or 92 octane.

Ahh right. That's quite a difference to us then, as I said our lowest is 95 (normal), 97 (super) and 99 (premium). Thanks for the little insight into American petrol anyway

But we can go to the race track and get octanes up to 110 at some tracks! Even though that was like $7.00 last time I had a chance to go to the track. You add a little alcohol injection system with it and we are talking clean burning! I should add that most cars that run on this stuff in no way shape or form come close to meeting the national average for fuel consumption.