Fuel price watch

[Keith Webb]

With all the talk of high oil prices I was wondering what fuel (whether you call it gasoline or petrol) costs where you are... Here it's around $1.07 per litre (Australian) - I just heard it's hit an almost all time high in the US of $US .75c per gallon... what does it cost per litre in Canada, UK, Europe?

If I were to fill my FGT (with 21 gallon tanks) would cost me just over $205 (A)

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
With all the talk of high oil prices I was wondering what fuel (whether you call it gasoline or petrol) costs where you are... Here it's around $1.07 per litre (Australian) - I just heard it's hit an almost all time high in the US of $US .75c per gallon... what does it cost per litre in Canada, UK, Europe?

If I were to fill my FGT (with 21 gallon tanks) would cost me just over $205 (A)

Unfortunately it's a fair bit higher than .$0.75/gal. in the U.S. Here in Texas we're below the national average at $2.02/gal. The U.S. gallon being 3.8 litres makes it about .53/l.

[Keith Webb]

The news report I heard must have been for litres then.

Perhaps we could base it on filling a standard CMP which I think is 22 imp gallons, or just on 100 litres. Here this would cost $108 (A) which is at the current rate of exchange about $82.55 (US).

[Euan McDonald]

So Keith if you filled the tanks of your gun tractor would that double its value?

[chris vickery]

Gasoline tonight at our local station, $.909 per litre CDN

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
The news report I heard must have been for litres then.

Perhaps we could base it on filling a standard CMP which I think is 22 imp gallons, or just on 100 litres. Here this would cost $108 (A) which is at the current rate of exchange about $82.55 (US).

You probably heard the price of gas in California, which at close to $3.00/gal works out nicely to .75/litre. I like the idea of basing it on a full CMP....something we can all relate to!

[sapper740]

Originally posted by chris vickery
Gasoline tonight at our local station, $.909 per litre CDN

Ouch! .53 US is about .64CDN. Gas is still a fair bit cheaper here. I guess the difference is the amount of taxes per gal/litre. Gotta keep those @%$& Liberals in Ottawa happy. I guess registering all those guns is costing more than Alain Roche (my spelling) thought it would be. But, since we're all so much safer now, I guess no one is complaining...right? Don't mind me, I'm just a disgruntled ex-western Canadian. I've got to go hug my non-registered guns now. Dang, just tripped over a fully loaded Vickers mg belt...hey son! put that away, we're not going to the range until the weekend!

Did I mention that I'm a disgruntled ex-western Canadian?

[Snowtractor]

...here. It is cheaper in Yeloowknife.
Sean

Originally posted by Keith Webb
The news report I heard must have been for litres then.

Perhaps we could base it on filling a standard CMP which I think is 22 imp gallons, or just on 100 litres. Here this would cost $108 (A) which is at the current rate of exchange about $82.55 (US).

Almost free. . . . . . . . . . .
Average UK price 85.6p/l so £85.60 to fill the standard CMP; using the non-tourist, base equivalent rates for today:
$US155.56
$CAN199.66
$AU203.95
$NZ222.30
or
4,648,478.74 Romanian Lei

Still cheap, just try filling the FV623 with 454.61litres. . . . . . .and paying for it. Then watch it go at 0.71km/l ~ 2mpg

R.

[tankbarrell]

Originally posted by FV623
Still cheap, just try filling the FV623 with 454.61litres. . . . . . .and paying for it. Then watch it go at 0.71km/l ~ 2mpg

Or indeed the Sherman V with 703 litres, 158 gallons in real money.......

[Lynn Eades]

N.Z.$1.38 per litre. $1.00 = $0.65c U.S. Problem here is the amount the govt. steals......I mean takes in tax. Same crap different country.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Perhaps we could base it on filling a standard CMP which I think is 22 imp gallons, or just on 100 litres. Here this would cost $108 (A) which is at the current rate of exchange about $82.55 (US).

Originally posted by FV623
Average UK price 85.6p/l so £85.60 to fill the standard CMP; using the non-tourist, base equivalent rates for today:
$US155.56
$CAN199.66
$AU203.95
$NZ222.30

At €1.38 a litre, filling a standard CMP in Holland will set you back €138 = AUS$232.63 = US$174.53 = UKP95.87.

Does anyone pay any more?

H.

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
At €1.38 a litre, filling a standard CMP in Holland will set you back €138 = AUS$232.63 = US$174.53 = UKP95.87.

Does anyone pay any more?

Here, why don't you lot just say "no" and get out of that Fourth Reich club?

On the plus side though, Holland doesn't have any hills to grind up in second gear so doing desperate things for the consumption figures.

R.

Originally posted by tankbarrell
Or indeed the Sherman V with 703 litres, 158 gallons in real money.......

Hey, I saw you on national telly Mr. A. Tankbarrel; so, if some media presenter is allowed to hack about in your A57 M4A4 can we all have a go?

Or were some bulging brown envelopes slipped discreetly across as a suitable inducement? :

R.

[tankbarrell]

Originally posted by FV623
Hey, I saw you on national telly Mr. A. Tankbarrel; so, if some media presenter is allowed to hack about in your A57 M4A4 can we all have a go?

Or were some bulging brown envelopes slipped discreetly across as a suitable inducement? :

Umm, well you see....it was like this.... Actually, I still havn't seen it! As to having a go, of course, always glad to share the enjoyment.
I was surprised how well the presenter got the hang of it. Shermans are easy to drive if you are not afraid of them and he took to it straight away.
As to incentive....well I did use £175 worth of fuel that weekend...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by FV623
Here, why don't you lot just say "no" and get out of that Fourth Reich club?

We just said "no", but I doubt if we really will get out. Mind you, economically Holland is really a Forth Reich province.

On the plus side though, Holland doesn't have any hills to grind up in second gear so doing desperate things for the consumption figures.

Our traffic-jams might be even worse for fuel consumption....

H.

[42mk1carrier]

Here in eastern Pennsylvania (50miles N.W of philidelphia)
it's $2.23 a U.S. gallon. I thought there was oil in Iraq
Steve k

[sapper740]

Originally posted by 42mk1carrier
Here in eastern Pennsylvania (50miles N.W of philidelphia)
it's $2.23 a U.S. gallon. I thought there was oil in Iraq
Steve k

Just filled up today at $2.00.9 with .03 off at Wally World (Wal Mart) in Denton, Tx. The U.S. gal. being 3.88 litres makes it .52/litre. Still not too bad compared to our Canadian, European, Aussie, and Kiwi buddies.

Originally posted by tankbarrell
Umm, well you see....it was like this.... Actually, I still havn't seen it! As to having a go, of course, always glad to share the enjoyment.

I'll be round shortly. . . . . . .

I was surprised how well the presenter got the hang of it. Shermans are easy to drive if you are not afraid of them and he took to it straight away.

indeed so, media people tend to be somewhat impractical as a rule. Seems most people think "car" with several hundred hp, whereas in reality the hp/ton figure for armour is very small by comparison; heavy hoof generally needed.

As to incentive....well I did use £175 worth of fuel that weekend...

it is indeed; so what's that, 18 - 20 miles of fun?

R.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
With all the talk of high oil prices I was wondering what fuel (whether you call it gasoline or petrol) costs where you are... Here it's around $1.07 per litre (Australian) - I just heard it's hit an almost all time high in the US of $US .75c per gallon... what does it cost per litre in Canada, UK, Europe?

If I were to fill my FGT (with 21 gallon tanks) would cost me just over $205 (A)

Keith:

CMP C15-A tanks are 12 1/2 imp gal ea= 25 imp gal total.

That =113.65 litres.

@.899/litre, = 102.17 CDN

=109.41 AUD.

HTH

Regards...still getting bloody expensive!

[hrpearce]

These prices appear quite cheap now

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by hrpearce

These prices appear quite cheap now

Yep, around $1.36/L here for regular gas right now... 10 days ago, up in Quebec with a Ford 450 cube van, diesel was anywhere up to $1.57/L, $260 CAD to fill the tank from an eighth (and we did that thrice)... hate to think what is is now!

You know what it is? It's not a bloody shortage, it's the goddam speculators, blast their hides! We have lots of oil, it's just that the greedy bastards have made us pay through the hoops for it. Already, thousands of jobs in Ontario alone have been lost due to speculator-driven bankruptcies... and worse yet to come! You know my answer - line 'em up with the spammers!!!!!!!

[Rick W]

£1.30 per litre in this area of the UK for petrol. Paid £1.33 per litre of diesel the other day.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

"They left the money, only emptied the tank."

[Eric Korhonen]

Gasoline here is $1.41 per litre, it costs a small fortune now to fill up a car. I filled a 5 gallon can of diesel last weekend for the skidder, it cost $38.00 for 5 gallons. The price for diesel was $1.48 a litre. I remember when I started driving gas was 49 cents a gallon. You could drive for a week on $5.00. Now it is $5.00 to take the nozzel off the pump and put it in your car. They are saying for people to use public transport but when you live in the country as I do you have no other way to get around other then your own vehicle.
In the spring the price was just over $1.00 a litre and they said by summer it would be $1.50 a litre , surprise they were right. It went to that price because they wanted it there.(crooks) There should be a law against it but the government won't do anything about it because the higher the price the more money they get from it.

Cheers

Eric

[mike mckinley]

well, it's $1.38/l here in new brunswick....f$#@ing highway robbery!! with a 30 year reserve of oil, why do we buy foreign oil? why not use our reserve, refine it and sell it to canadians only, no export. we could control the price much better, and they could peddle their oil elsewhere!! or, we could sell them one bushel of wheat for the same price they sell us a barrell of oil...wonder how that would go over?? free trade, free oppertunity...goose and gander.

[Snowtractor]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

, it's the goddam speculators, You know my answer - line 'em up with the spammers!!!!!!!

Can we put 'em back to back? Brass is getting too gawdamned pricey to waste on those buggers...

Sean

[Eric Korhonen]

The gas company's are nothing but crooks. I was under the impression that every day the price of oil is dropping, well they had dropped the price of gas here and then all of a sudden yesterday up it went 5 cents a litre. We were at $1.31 per litre and now it's back to $1.36.Yet you check on gasbuddy.com and in southern Ontario it is $1.14 per litre. According to gasbuddy.com Thunder Bay has one of the highest gas prices in Ontario.
Great to be a northern.

Eric

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Petrol went up to £1.25 / litre or so, and Diesel £1.34...perhaps higher. It's now come down, and our local supermarket sells 95 RON at £110.9 / litre and Diesel at £121.9/l plus they now sell Biodiesel. Where you can get it, 98 RON Super Unleaded sells between 95 and Diesel prices. Gas seems to be around £0.60/litre..that is Autogas or LPG, though local buses have run on CNG or Compressed Natural Gas.

I believe in France that they have 92 RON? I am not sure either of our cars can run on that.

There is one station about 10 miles away that sells Leaded fuel for classic cars...that's £1.50/l!!!

[Jim Price]

David:
Gasoline, unleaded, here in Arizona was .96 USD per liter today or about .51 British pounds per liter.

Regards,
Jim