Re: Spaces on luxury Red Sea Trip in October


"Diesel" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h3f68s$1eug$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lee Bell wrote:
Fuel surcharge??? Gas is only $2.17 a gallon right now.

Maybe in your world. In mine, it's quite a bit higher than that. I'm pretty sure regular is still above $2.50, I saw some midgrade as low as $2.75 yesterday. High test is running close to $3.00. No matter what grade you like, there's a fuel surcharge for marine use.

Lee

Firstly,near all boats use diesel not 'gas' or petrol and secondly the current price of diesel in England is about £1.07 per litre, with petrol being a little less

Why do Americans believe that the rest of the world pays the same as you? Fuel in the US has always been, and still is, much cheaper than in most other parts of the world.

NB. The US gallon is smaller than the UK or 'standard' gallon. Therefore an accurate comparison would be the litre measure, as this is based on the worldwide standard SI measure of volume.

The US gallon is only 3.79 litres compared to a UK gallon which is 4.54 litres. This is because, although we both have a gallon as 8 pints, a US pint is only 16 US fluid ounces compared to the UK pint of 20 UK fluid ounces.

Based upon your average cost of $2.5 per us gallon that means you are paying about 66 cents per litre, whereas in the UK we are paying about USD$1.72 per litre, over two and a half times the cost of your fuel!

That means that a US gallon of fuel of 3.79 litres is about £4.05 in England or USD$6.5, not the USD$2.5 you're paying.

Even in Europe, although a bit lower than the UK, the cost of diesel is still much higher than the US, with a litre of diesel in France at about 1.06 Euro, that makes the cost of a US gallon around USD$5.6, still much higher.

And you wonder why we are always complaining? This is because we're being ripped off by the oil giants and also on the extortionate taxes!

BTW, the exchange rates I used were based on today's rate on www.xe.com of 1 Euro = 1.39755 USD and 1 GB Pound = 1.6106 USD.

Tony

The price you pay for gas in the UK... how much of that is Tax?!?!

Invisible68

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