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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Simon Meakin on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 08:31 am:

Filling up at $10.46 a gallon here in UK !


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Patrick on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 08:52 am:

The only way that picture could be any better is if that gas station were equipped with the old hand cranked pumps with the clear glass measuring reservoirs at the top. Jim Patrick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jason Gauthier on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 09:00 am:

$10.46! Certainly puts $3.50 into perspective! - Jason


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 09:01 am:

Simon, which kind of gallon are you referring to, yours or ours?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Chantrell - Adelaide, Australia on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 09:10 am:

Adelaide is currently $1.53/litre or $6.12/US gallon...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Simon Meakin on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 09:39 am:

Ah,I forgot the difference Dick, I was referring to our gallons, works out to $8.79/US gall.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Hjortnaes, Men Falls, WI on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 09:49 am:

Down to $3.65 here in Wisconsin. And you wonder why the American public complains so much.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darin Hull on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 09:56 am:

Great picture, Simon.

Darin


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Davis-SE Georgia on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:08 am:

I'm telling you guys it all comes out in the wash. Everybody says we Americans have it lucky with our low gas prices. It's all taxes. You can bet your sweet bippy we are paying for it somewhere else through other taxes, insurance, or deductibles. Looking at just gas prices is like taking something out of context. Apples and oranges. You have to look at the whole picture. How much does one pay in overall taxes and what do they receive from their government in return. Even inside the US, different states have different ways of taxing their residents. Some states have no income tax, but you can bet they make up for it in property tax or sales tax or somewhere. You can't just say "Look at (Insert state name here). Boy they have it lucky. They don't have to pay income tax." No, maybe they don't, but they are making up for it somewhere else.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:14 am:

I bet the other countries don't give $10 Billion a year in welfare to the big oil companies like we do. Big Oil mostly doesn't pay any US income taxes, either.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Norman T. Kling on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:19 am:

It's $4.29 here in California, and that's the lowest price. Problem is, our wide open spaces. We drive a long ways. From our house to the nearest food market is one mile. To get clothes, about 5 or 6 miles. For most people to go to work one way at least 15 miles, and for some, 50 miles. So even though the gas is lower cost, it takes a lot to get around. Buses don't go to where you want to travel. I would have to walk at least one mile each way up and down steep hills to get to the bus stop. The bus stop is at the food market, so can't take a bus from here to there.
Norm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:27 am:

There are two drawbacks to Imperial gallons, first is that you can not get as many in the tank, and second is that they cost more, but you do get better mileage with them.
Best
gus
PS What kind of dollars do you use in Blighty? I am surprised that gas companies do not price their gas in Guineas to get the little extra.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bernard Paulsen, San Buenaventura, Calif on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 01:41 pm:

Thanks for mentioning it Simon. We Americans often complain without realizing how lucky we are in many aspects of life. That said, I gladly would pay $2 more per gallon if it with give me the Kingdom's NHS healthcare system -- free of charge -- as a tradeoff.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve in Tennessee on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 01:55 pm:

It will drop. Its an election year. Fill up your bulk tanks in October!!! I certainly plan to.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Will,, Trenton,,,New Jersey on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 02:04 pm:

I would say its worth every penny,,,,, It's (V) powered gas!!!!!!!! Nope, Have no idea what that is.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Stewart -Calif. on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 02:27 pm:

When I started driving in 1970 gas was 29.9 CENTS a gallon during gas wars. In about 1974 the oil embargo happened and gas shot up to .55 cents a gallon and I was so mad I was going to quit driving. If only I knew!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 02:32 pm:

How can people put V power gasoline in their straight 4's?

Won't the pistons try to go at an angle? :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 03:04 pm:

While we're complaining about what other countries pay for gas, just keep in mind what our President said. "Energy prices will necessarily have to skyrocket".
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
Karl Marx
As for the "V Power" signs, it's a Shell advertising gimmick. Shell apparently puts Nitrogen in the gas "to clean the valves". Hello? Nitrogen doesn't burn? It's all Madison Ave. baloney.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 03:09 pm:

From the looks of the driveway, this isn't the first time those Model T's have gassed-up there. :-)
My local Shell station looks the same way from filling up 'Lizzie'. (I'm joking, I'm joking, don't bother to take this for anything more).


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Will,, Trenton,,,New Jersey on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 03:46 pm:

Ok Dennis,,,, Your in for a spanking now


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Mullis on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 07:31 pm:

Hey Simon,
You guys need storm the Top Gear studios and teach Jeremy Clarkson how to drive a Model T.

Clarkson: "Driving a Model T is more complicated than eye surgery"



"Top Gear" (UK) is one of only a few televisions shows I care to watch.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 07:46 am:

We used to get UK 'Top Gear' here (in Florida) I loved that show. The British dry wit is something all it's own. I loved the episode where the guys rode motor bikes from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) to Hanoi in Viet Nam. The first bike that broke down was replaced with a motor bike painted up like the 'Captain America' (Peter Fonda's) bike in Easy Rider. Leave it to the Brits, I'm a Viet Nam Vet and I don't think I'd like to try a stunt like that.

Now we get an American version which quite frankly, stinks.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Mullis on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 08:54 am:

Dennis,
I agree about the American version. The Austrialian version isn't much better. For me it's Top Gear UK or nothing.
Have you tried Internet TV?
A blue ray player is all you need. We dropped cable TV altogether. We subscribe to Netflix. It's only 8 bucks a month.
Netflix has Top Gear UK. The really nice thing is that they have several seasons of whatever TV show that you want to watch so you are not at the mercy of a program schedule. You choose which season and which episode to watch whenever. Our cable bill had got outrageous, it was about 80 bucks a month not counting Internet. Now it's 8 bucks and the selection is better. We will never go back to cable. What about local news and weather................ I have this thing called "the Internet" for that. The difference between cable and Internet TV is like the difference between watching a 1948 10 inch black and white TV and suddenly having a 52 inch high definition color television. Best of all Netflix has "the Andy Griffith Show" (grin)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 09:49 am:

YOu can also get Top Gear with Roku, we have Amazon Prime, whitch give us free shipping and many free videos, we do have to pay for Top Gear though (the new ones) Jezzer is a bit of a fool though, only a fool would attempt to drive a car to the North Pole after Algore has told us the ice caps have all melted and the polar bears are nearly extinct. They got around the missing ice by transporting the film crew to Mars and filmed it there.
Best
Gus


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bernard Paulsen, San Buenaventura, Calif on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 02:54 am:

I'm a big Top Gear fan as well. Why? It's real. Watch Motorweek and after every episode the guy has the brown stuff covering his nose. Every car is wonderful, never anything negative. At Top Gear, they say when some car is goddamn awful, when brakes are scary, ergonomics fit for dwarfs only. Humorous, entertaining as hell, and still real in its essence.


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