Cost of Fuel in USA versus Europe
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Cost of Fuel in USA versus Europe
I was just talking with someone about the cost of owning/operating a car in the UK. She said fuel is $8 a gallon, and a license for the smallest available car is £2,000. Is that true? Licenses in the US are like $12 . . . which kind of explains why there are so many morons driving around, but still.
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I'm not quite sure Tom, but it sounds alright. Getting a driver's license here in Germany requires lots of lessons in theory and practice and will cost about 2000 € I guess. Fuel is like 1.10 to 1.30 € right now per litre. Considering one gallon is about 4.5 litres, what you heard sounds very realistic.
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$8 a gallon is an exageration if we are to use Trantor's numbers. A gallon is 3.8L so with the euro at $1.30 it works out to $6.40 a gallon, which is about 2.5x what you'd pay in the US these days. Of course since you won't need your car to go everywhere (unlike here!) and your average european car gets much better mileage than your average american car, I wouldn't be surprised if the monthly gasoline budget for an average family on both sides of the ocean turned out about the same.
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I wasn't necessarily neglecting that Lunever. I just assumed that the UK and Germany would have roughly equal prizes, at least compared to the US. In fact, I've heard that fuel prizes are even more expensive in the UK than here in Germany, but I suppose the difference is much smaller than the difference between either of those countries and the US.
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$3.20 per gallon here. Cant even fill my tank with $20 anymore. It's really sad, that I don't have a job or any other source of income too .
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lessons here were about 200 bucks canadian. Gas jumped to 3 digits far to fast and has kept going.. perhaps we don't need to pay as much as those of you in the UK. However, for us it has been feeling a lot like we are being screwed.
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I'm glad you split this from the Changing Man thread, guys. I was getting quite emotional over the fuel prices...
High fuel prices encourage more fuel efficient vehicles which must be good for the planet. I am of course a hipocryte as I drive an Alfa Romeo that only does 25MPG. Fortunately these days in Euroland you can get cars that are thrifty on fuel byt still go like hot snot. For example a diesel Seat Leon FR see http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/R ... 549&page=2 - 47MPG but also 170 BHP and 0-60 in 8 seconds. I can live with that
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