The gasoline/petrol price thread.

[Coito ergo sum]

Damn -- it would cost me about $18 per day to go to work, not including tire and other vehicle wear, to get to work....

Do you drive a tank? Or live 200 miles away from where you work?

Plenty of people spend way more than that on transport to work in the UK whether its public or private transport.

That doesn't make it right. Spending less on transport is better for the economy and better for people in general, because making it more expensive to go to work hurts the lower and middle classes the most.

[Coito ergo sum]

Damn -- it would cost me about $18 per day to go to work, not including tire and other vehicle wear, to get to work....

Do you drive a tank? Or live 200 miles away from where you work?

He lives in the US. Car efficiency is in gallons per mile and not the other way around.

British cars get good mileage, then? Minicooper gets about 26 miles per gallon in town/city driving, and maybe 33 on the highway. Wow. Phenomenal -- much better than 25 MPG.

[Thinking Aloud]

Ayaan drives ~45 miles one way, so about four gallons of gas. That's $13.80 per day in gas, four days a week. $55.20 a week, $220/month, just for gas.

That's an outrageously poor fuel economy.

27.5 mpg. The Jimmy got 18 mpg.

Ours is usually between 37.9 (around town) and 51.1 (long-distance).

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ayaan drives ~45 miles one way, so about four gallons of gas. That's $13.80 per day in gas, four days a week. $55.20 a week, $220/month, just for gas.

That's an outrageously poor fuel economy.

27.5 mpg. The Jimmy got 18 mpg.

Ours is usually between 37.9 (around town) and 51.1 (long-distance).

Good. Gimme your car, please.

[Coito ergo sum]

Ayaan drives ~45 miles one way, so about four gallons of gas. That's $13.80 per day in gas, four days a week. $55.20 a week, $220/month, just for gas.

That's an outrageously poor fuel economy.

27.5 mpg. The Jimmy got 18 mpg.

Ours is usually between 37.9 (around town) and 51.1 (long-distance).

I'll pass on the Smartcar, or the 1.0 Liter Citroen C1. I'd rather walk.

[Thinking Aloud]

Ayaan drives ~45 miles one way, so about four gallons of gas. That's $13.80 per day in gas, four days a week. $55.20 a week, $220/month, just for gas.

That's an outrageously poor fuel economy.

27.5 mpg. The Jimmy got 18 mpg.

Ours is usually between 37.9 (around town) and 51.1 (long-distance).

I'll pass on the Smartcar, or the 1.0 Liter Citroen C1. I'd rather walk.

Smart car? It's a Focus estate.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

Are you talking kilometers?

[Thinking Aloud]

Are you talking kilometers?

No.

[Coito ergo sum]

We don't even have that car in the US. They must measure something differently there because here the Ford Focus sedan, smaller than the above, doesn't get the gas mileage listed for the Focus Estate. I wonder why that is.

My friends in the industry, I recall, mentioned some time ago that vehicles for the American market have higher crash rating requirements which makes them install heavier materials, like side pillars and stuff. I'm not sure if I'm recalling that correctly. I may make a phone call and get the skinny on this.

[Bella Fortuna]

Odd, because the most current (and supposedly most fuel-efficient) Ford Focus model in the states is stated to only get 28/40 max.

[PsychoSerenity]

Just in case anyone has missed it - there is a difference between US gallon and UK gallon (I assume these measurements are used for fuel in their respective countries) 1 UK gallon = 1.2 US gallon - which possibly makes up for some of the difference here, though not all of it.

[Coito ergo sum]

Odd, because the most current (and supposedly most fuel-efficient) Ford Focus model in the states is stated to only get 28/40 max.

That's what I thought too. And, those figures never work out to be true. The mileage is always lower in practice.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The mileage I quoted was the average for a trip from St. Louis to Bowling Green and back, i.e., almost all highway miles.

[Bella Fortuna]

Odd, because the most current (and supposedly most fuel-efficient) Ford Focus model in the states is stated to only get 28/40 max.

That's what I thought too. And, those figures never work out to be true. The mileage is always lower in practice.

I know! They're getting all the good cars!

Well - maybe Americans should stop buying ridiculously huge guzzling monstrosities...

[Coito ergo sum]

Odd, because the most current (and supposedly most fuel-efficient) Ford Focus model in the states is stated to only get 28/40 max.

That's what I thought too. And, those figures never work out to be true. The mileage is always lower in practice.

I know! They're getting all the good cars!

Well - maybe Americans should stop buying ridiculously huge guzzling monstrosities...

I don't see the material difference in a Ford Fusion or Taurus and perhaps a Ford Focus. What? 4 MPH difference? I don't see as we, in the US, have a 40 MPG option until we get to expensive hybrid versions and tiny little death traps, like the Smartcar and and some Hyundai tin can.

I'll pay a little extra for some structural integrity....