I know this is OFF topic, to the many helpful hints I have received.

I recently had a discussio with my neighbor, where I noted that gas
in England, Holland, Germany (et al) is a LOT more expensive than the
US.

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:13:59 -0400
wrote:

I know this is OFF topic, to the many helpful hints I have received.

I recently had a discussio with my neighbor, where I noted that gas
in England, Holland, Germany (et al) is a LOT more expensive than the
US.

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

I assume you mean petrol when you refer to gas? In the UK, gas is used
to heat cookers and furnaces, and petrol is now bought by the litre, not
the Imperial or US gallon.
If this is what you mean, the difference is the tax paid by the
consumer.

--
Davey.

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:13:59 -0400, joe wrote:

I know this is OFF topic, to the many helpful hints I have received.

I recently had a discussio with my neighbor, where I noted that gas in
England, Holland, Germany (et al) is a LOT more expensive than the US.

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

By "gas", I presume you mean "petrol"?

Right, first things first... We don't use gallons. We used to, but they
were different gallons to yours. Ours were 4.5 litres, yours are 3.8
liters.

Petrol here is roughly £1.10/litre at the moment = US$1.70, so US$6.45/US
gallon.

A lot of that is tax. 58p/litre, plus 20% VAT. Take those off, and you're
looking at 34p/litre = £1.30/US gallon = US$2 almost exactly. You have a
national average of about 49c/US gallon, 32p or 8.5p/litre. So, yes, your
basic fuel is a little bit cheaper, but that shortfall in tax has to be
made up somehow, unless it doesn't get spent. Overall, you pay a total of
about 31% in tax, we pay about 40%.

I'll leave it to you to decide who gets better value for that...

Adrian wrote:

joe wrote:

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

Petrol here is roughly £1.10/litre at the moment = US$1.70, so US$6.45/US
gallon.

Yep, 6.50 USD per US gallon was my fag-packet sum the other day in a
different group.

On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:24:22 PM UTC+1, Adrian wrote:
On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:13:59 -0400, joe wrote:

I know this is OFF topic, to the many helpful hints I have received.

I recently had a discussio with my neighbor, where I noted that gas in
England, Holland, Germany (et al) is a LOT more expensive than the US.

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

By "gas", I presume you mean "petrol"?

Right, first things first... We don't use gallons. We used to, but they
were different gallons to yours. Ours were 4.5 litres, yours are 3.8
liters.

Petrol here is roughly £1.10/litre at the moment = US$1.70, so US$6.45/US
gallon.

A lot of that is tax. 58p/litre, plus 20% VAT. Take those off, and you're
looking at 34p/litre = £1.30/US gallon = US$2 almost exactly. You have a
national average of about 49c/US gallon, 32p or 8.5p/litre. So, yes, your
basic fuel is a little bit cheaper, but that shortfall in tax has to be
made up somehow, unless it doesn't get spent. Overall, you pay a total of
about 31% in tax, we pay about 40%.

I'll leave it to you to decide who gets better value for that...

We used to get better value when we had few road tolls. Now they are being slowly introduced they get much better value.

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:00:59 -0700, wrote:

So, yes, your basic fuel is a little bit cheaper, but that shortfall in
tax has to be made up somehow, unless it doesn't get spent. Overall,
you pay a total of about 31% in tax, we pay about 40%.

I'll leave it to you to decide who gets better value for that...

We used to get better value when we had few road tolls. Now they are
being slowly introduced they get much better value.

I was talking much more widely than transport cost vs benefit. I was
thinking more of the entirety of taxation vs government expenditure.

But, fwiw, the toll payable for a bridge near here has been payable for
about the same amount of time as the US has been an independent country -
and the owner of the bridge pays no tax of any kind.

Adrian put finger to keyboard:

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:13:59 -0400, joe wrote:

I know this is OFF topic, to the many helpful hints I have received.

I recently had a discussio with my neighbor, where I noted that gas
in England, Holland, Germany (et al) is a LOT more expensive than the
US.

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

By "gas", I presume you mean "petrol"?

Right, first things first... We don't use gallons. We used to, but they
were different gallons to yours. Ours were 4.5 litres, yours are 3.8
liters.

Petrol here is roughly £1.10/litre at the moment = US$1.70, so
US$6.45/US gallon.

A lot of that is tax. 58p/litre, plus 20% VAT. Take those off, and
you're looking at 34p/litre = £1.30/US gallon = US$2 almost exactly. You
have a national average of about 49c/US gallon, 32p or 8.5p/litre.

That seems low...

71c/litre according to
http://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

So,
yes, your basic fuel is a little bit cheaper, but that shortfall in tax
has to be made up somehow, unless it doesn't get spent. Overall, you pay
a total of about 31% in tax, we pay about 40%.

I'll leave it to you to decide who gets better value for that...

In article ,
wrote:
I know this is OFF topic, to the many helpful hints I have received.

I recently had a discussio with my neighbor, where I noted that gas
in England, Holland, Germany (et al) is a LOT more expensive than the
US.

With many US states now at $2.00/ gallon - what are the comparative
rates overseas?

Well, yes. What you save in fuel costs you pay out in health care.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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