Gas/Petrol Prices

[WillRiker]

It is...at current exchange rates £1 (Great British Pound) is worth about $2 (US Dollars)...whioch means that the pound is stronger than the dollar.

Which means that you double the UK amount to get a rough Dollar amount...or half the dollar amount to give you a UK amount.

Therefore if fuel costs you around $4.50 a gallon then you half that to get £2.25 per gallon.

So what I'm saying is that if we paid what you're paying it would only cost us £2.25 per gallon over here, but it doesn't. Fuel costs us around £5.20 per gallon, so if you double that amount it gives you over $10 per gallon....so really you aren't paying that much in comparison to the rest of the World...yes it's more than you're used to paying, but you've had prices cheaper than the rest of the World for decades, and even though your fuel costs have maybe doubled, they're still only half of what we pay over here.

That's why it annoys me to hear all the US people pissing and moaning about how much fuel costs them when the reality is you're still far cheaper than most other Countries.

That and the average yearly salary in the US is substantially higher than what it is in the UK. I can't say for absolute certain, but I'm pretty sure the average UK salary is somewhere around the £20000 mark which is about $40000 dollars and I bet that the US National Average yearly wage is far higher than $40000.

[mommysalomi]

Ah I was told the average pay is alot more than that.


Doesnt matter we all are still paying to much..We will actually be trading in our suv for a car due to the fact it will be much more economical...And it makes it easier for me to piss off aall these texans with thier big trucks hehe