Thanks everyone. It would be even better driving in Florida if they had better fuel economy on their cars. When we were there in 2006 the car we were driving did about half the MPG that our car at home does.
Thanks everyone. It would be even better driving in Florida if they had better fuel economy on their cars. When we were there in 2006 the car we were driving did about half the MPG that our car at home does.
I don't think fuel economy was thought of until recently, but I'm sure that will be changing soon and a lot more smaller cars will be seen around.
Andy
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Robert5988
Blott,
Your calculator has gone haywire!
A US gallon at UK prices would be £4.35[/quote]<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Graham49
But a US gallon @ $4.00 and an exchange rate of $1.98/£1 is £2.02, so blott was still right!!![/quote]Thank you Graham!
blott
All I know is it costs way to much on US wages to fill up a car nowadays...not so bad if you are here on holiday and get a good rate...
But you can get some good bargins on trucks...my neighbour just got a nearly one giving him nearly $15k to put away for gas...
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by blott
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Robert5988
Blott,
Your calculator has gone haywire!
A US gallon at UK prices would be £4.35[/quote]<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Graham49
But a US gallon @ $4.00 and an exchange rate of $1.98/£1 is £2.02, so blott was still right!!![/quote]Thank you Graham!
[/quote]
Sorry Graham, but you're both wrong.
If you could buy a US gallon at [u]UK prices</u> it would, as Robert rightly points out, cost £4.35.
A US gallon at [u]US prices</u> expressed in £ sterling at that rate would indeed be £2.02 but Blott posted that a US gallon transferred to UK [u]prices</u> would be £2.02. That's way off the mark.
Of course, using a more realistic exchange rate would change those figures a bit.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by sammibabe
Thanks everyone. It would be even better driving in Florida if they had better fuel economy on their cars. When we were there in 2006 the car we were driving did about half the MPG that our car at home does.
[/quote]You may think taht but if a US car does 22mpg, it is really 27mpg in the UK. The cost per mile in fuel is still substantially less in any part of the US compared to any part of the UK.
Regards, Mark
I didn't realise that the miles were different too. I know it is cheaper than here but even 27mpg is rubbish! Apart from the actual cost it is such a waste of resources to have a country of cars having such bad fuel economy (as I suspect that most cars in the US are the same or similar)
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:But a US gallon @ $4.00 and an exchange rate of $1.98/£1 is £2.02, so blott was still right!!![/quote]
Blott,(despite her thanks) was wrong! - and you have simply misread the thread!
Her statement was:
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:A US gallon transferred to UK prices would be about £2.02.[/quote]
Blott is using a UK price of £1.15 a litre.
A US gallon is 3.78 litres. So 3.78 x £1.15 = £4.35
If you need a further explanation!!!!!!
Edit
Blott has the advantage of being able to edit her post without the edit showing(as this will show on this post) as the change from £38.30 to £30.30 in her initial post demonstrates.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Robert5988
Blott,(depite her thanks) was wrong! - and you have simply misread the thread!
Her statement was: <blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:A US gallon transferred to UK prices would be about £2.02.[/quote]Blott is using a UK price of £1.15 a litre.
A US gallon is 3.78 litres. So 3.78 x £1.15 = £4.35
If you need a further explanation!!!!!!
Edit
Blott has the advantage of being able to edit her post without the edit showing(as this on the post) as the change from £38.30 to £30.30 demonstrates. [/quote]Yes, Robert, I can but since I had been corrected with my typo, I thought I'd better correct it before I misled anyone else, quite apart from you and Katy's Grandad.
And 'transferred to UK prices' means to you obviously something very different than it means to me (and Graham)...
As we seem to have answered the question about petrol prices in the US very fully for Sammibabe, this thread is now locked as I can't see the point in discussing it any further.
blott
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