# Fuel Price Overload????? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754 "2008-05-25T09:52:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/gazza554)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/1 "2008-05-25T09:52:27Z")
Ok, is it just here in the UK that fuel prices have gone sky high, or has everywhere else too? at the moment, petrol (gas) is at approx 114.9p per litre (approx 230 c or $2.30 per litre!!) and diesel is even higher! whats going on!!! ---
**Author:** ![Boomerjinks](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/boomerjinks/32/128_2.png) [@Boomerjinks](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Boomerjinks)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/2 "2008-05-25T10:02:31Z")
SERIOUSLY? It’s only $1.80 here in Colorado! ---
**Author:** ![gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/gazza554)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/3 "2008-05-25T10:13:49Z")
Seriously! look at todays national average at the top of this page [Driving advice and guides to keep you moving | The AA](http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/) It seriously is geting out of hand! and it keeps rising everyday! since like october, it has risen about 30p (60c), and theres no plan for it to stop! i hate my country! there scam artists! lol ---
**Author:** ![bradboss12](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@bradboss12](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bradboss12)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/4 "2008-05-25T11:31:33Z")
gas is going up here in the US, and natural gas (methane) and electricity is going up this fall. The ethanol thing is making corn prices and food soar, too. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. : ( ---
**Author:** ![loly2kn2](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@loly2kn2](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/loly2kn2)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/5 "2008-05-25T15:10:27Z")
Only one man to blame… Gordon Brown… The guys an idiot Lawrence ---
**Author:** ![gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/gazza554)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/6 "2008-05-25T15:34:22Z")
preach it brother lol ---
**Author:** ![Ron\_Daniels](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/ron_daniels/32/12_2.png) [@Ron\_Daniels](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Ron_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/7 "2008-05-25T16:32:39Z")
> [@loly2kn2](#): > > Only one man to blame… > > Gordon Brown… The guys an idiot > > Lawrence Actually that would be only two countries to blame; India and China. Industralization consumes a lot of fuel, thus prices increase as their demand increases. But Gordon Brown does have a lot to do with the UK prices being so high, much like various Politicans here in the US have our prices so high. ---
**Author:** ![Exoray](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/d26b3c/32.png) [@Exoray](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Exoray)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/8 "2008-05-25T16:54:51Z")
The UK taxes the hell out of fuel, remove your governments taxes (fuel tax and VAT) and you are almost inline with US prices… I did the math last week for a thread on [Proptopia](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/fans/websites/proptopia), the UK tax on fuel is about 57 pence a liter currently… Remove or lower the fuel tax over there and you would probably be a little happier as it will make a difference, unlike the US proposals to remove our fuel tax that pretty much amounts to nothing… ---
**Author:** ![gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/gazza554)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/9 "2008-05-25T17:08:20Z")
yeah your right Exoray, half of what we are paying, in tax’s! i want the magarita island fuel price! i wen there last september, and there fuel price was 3pence per litre! (around 6c) they said they could fill up their tank for around £1 lol crazy ---
**Author:** ![aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/aj-quick/32/188008_2.png) [@aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/aj-quick)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/10 "2008-05-25T17:19:57Z")
> [@Ron Daniels](#): > > Actually that would be only two countries to blame; India and China. Industralization consumes a lot of fuel, thus prices increase as their demand increases. Lets bomb them! It worked on Iraq didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@gazza554](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/gazza554)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/11 "2008-05-25T17:29:36Z")
well if they have all the fuel, you wont need a bomb, i think a match should do it. KABOOM!!! HAHA ---
**Author:** ![Ron\_Daniels](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/ron_daniels/32/12_2.png) [@Ron\_Daniels](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Ron_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/12 "2008-05-25T21:07:54Z")
Well both countries are kinda pushing the population bubble… hmmmm… Malthus arguments. We’d be saving the world by killing people! :sigh: ---
**Author:** ![slimershomie](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/slimershomie/32/5941_2.png) [@slimershomie](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/slimershomie)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/13 "2008-05-26T00:51:04Z")
gas is 3.80 a gal here it sucks ---
**Author:** ![aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/aj-quick/32/188008_2.png) [@aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/aj-quick)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/14 "2008-05-26T00:57:18Z")
> [@slimershomie](#): > > gas is 3.80 a gal here it sucks That’s roughly the national average currently. ---
**Author:** ![Exoray](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/d26b3c/32.png) [@Exoray](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Exoray)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/15 "2008-05-26T01:21:26Z")
> [@slimershomie](#): > > gas is 3.80 a gal here it sucks $4.19 here, $4.50(ish) as you get closer to Chicago… I would love the $3.80 price 🙂 It cost me $25 ($4.35 premium) to fill up my Buell yesterday… I have no idea what it will cost to fill up the car as I have not topped it off in awhile, and don’t even want to punch up the numbers… ---
**Author:** ![aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/aj-quick/32/188008_2.png) [@aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/aj-quick)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/16 "2008-05-26T01:25:50Z")
$25 to fill up a motorcycle!? (also… motorcycle with 5 + gallon tank!?) ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_Oxmxy](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/phil_oxmxy/32/237_2.png) [@Phil\_Oxmxy](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Phil_Oxmxy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/17 "2008-05-26T01:32:12Z")
Here its 1.30$ (or 40) CAN, thats 1.32 US and 0.66 UK. But this is abnormal for us too. ---
**Author:** ![aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/aj-quick/32/188008_2.png) [@aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/aj-quick)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/18 "2008-05-26T01:41:33Z")
> [@Phil\_Oxmxy](#): > > Here its 1.30$ (or 40) CAN, thats 1.32 US and 0.66 UK. > > But this is abnormal for us too. Keeping in mind that, that is **per liter**. So roughly four times $1.30 is $5.20 per gallon. ---
**Author:** ![Marsupial](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/marsupial/32/210_2.png) [@Marsupial](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Marsupial)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/19 "2008-05-26T02:36:48Z")
I’m not that old, and I changed my car in november… but when I bought the previous car (my first car ever) I did happen to pay less then 35 cents (canadian) per litter. that’s about 9 years ago now. At first I had problems putting more then 20$ into it. now I never put less then 40$ I take the train everyday to go to work - suburbs to big city in car is a nightmare. Result, I fill her up about once per 3 weeks. Everytime its 10 cents more expansive per litter!!! (and I’m almost not kidding) I currently own a toyota echo (used, 2003) and I can tell you lower fuel consumption is a blessing in this day and age. I should get an hybrid. or a fully electric one. [http://www.zenncars.com/](http://www.zenncars.com/) On a side note, maybe our fuel is more pricey then the US one, but our hydroelectricity is cheaper 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Exoray](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/d26b3c/32.png) [@Exoray](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Exoray)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754/20 "2008-05-26T02:53:06Z")
> [@AJ Quick](#): > > $25 to fill up a motorcycle!? (also… motorcycle with 5 + gallon tank!?) It’s got a 3.82 gallon tank with a .75 gallon reserve, but it will take over 5 gallons if you fill it to the tippy top, it’s a unique gas tank as there really isn’t a tank, the whole frame is hollow and that serves as the gas tank… [Next page](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/fuel-price-overload/24754.md?page=2)