What are gas prices in Britian?

Our gas comes through pipes in the ground! Our Petrol we buy at the pumps :-) Two nations divided by a common language! Our Petrol is approx 90pence to £1 per litre

We don't have gas in our pumps we have petrol :-) Sometimes we have diesel. :-)

I'm in a bit of a rush so will leave it so someone else to give you the figures

- but just so's you know, our government TAX the actual price we pay for petrol at the pump at something like 80% I think (maybe more)!!!!! It's a form of "voluntary extortion". The income they get from it helps fund their incompetence in many areas - like the "free" Health Service for example.

On 18 Aug 2005, wrote

Last time I filled up -- a couple of days ago -- 91.9 pence per litre.

That translates to GBP 3.47 per US gallon, which at the current exchange rate is USD 6.22 per galllon.

As much as will fit in the tank...

I have an older car which gets 32 mpg town/40 mpg motorway -- that's "miles per Imperial gallon", though.

HTH

Congratulations to the other Dave for beating me to the answer by 5 minutes :-)

(but a lot of that is taxes)

It's worse than that.

Petrol (gas) has been priced in litres for some time now in Britain. It varies across the country and between different filling stations. I'm paying about 90pence per litre for unleaded petrol and 93pence per litre for diesel.

A UK gallon is 4.54 litres, a UK gallon is 1.2 US gallons and the pound is worth about $1.77 so the prices are =A34.08/UK gallon ($6.03/US gallon) for petrol and =A34.22/UK gallon ($6.23/US gallon) for diesel.

My petrol vehicle does about 20-28 miles per gallon (not so good as it's a 7 seat, 2.8 litre, MPV[1]), and the diesel about 48 - 60 mpg (mid size, 1.6 litre, mini-MPV).

MBQ

How could the NHS possibly be paid for without taxes?

alex

Which we still have to pay of course! One could try offering to buy it without paying tax at only $1,25/USg but sellers tend to reject this offer with charming Olde Worlde English expressions.

This is reasonably complicated, as a US gallon is not a UK gallon and we use litres anyway.

However, I'll take a typical price of 91.9p/l. for 95 octane unleaded (octanes are not directly comparable with US). This is the most common petrol. Gas over here means LPG (butane/propane mix) and is much cheaper.

That makes 3.48 GBP per US gallon. At an exchange rate of 1.80, this gives

UK miles per gallon figures will be in Imperial gallons, so not directly comparable. They are extremely variable. A typical "median average" car that might get driven here (much smaller than a typical US car) might be a 1.6 Ford Focus, which gets a combined urban/extra urban mileage 42.2mpg. A US gallon is 5/6th an Imperial one, giving 35.2 mpg(US).

Christian.

Didn't say that Alex. Ever hear of waste in the NHS? Ever hear of better management? Every heard of removing Red Tape, ever heard of enforcing better control of spending from the top ie government.

A lot more. The tax ON petrol is nearer 400%. What you mean is that 80% of the price is tax.

Nothing voluntary about it. The only places public transport works, it is full up.

Anyhow, petrol (aka "gasoline", aka "gas") is presently 90-ish pence per litre.

So, converting that into USD, multiply by 1.8 gives $1.62 per litre.

Then, converting *that* into US gallons (the UK and US gallons are different sizes - the US gallon is only 3/4 the size of the UK one), by multiplying by 3.79 (the number of litres in a US gallon) gives $6.13 per US gallon.

The average mileage of a UK car? I have no idea - I would guess around the mid-20s per *UK* gallon.

Indeed. I often wonder about the mentality of people who protest about fuel duty. Even if it were halved overnight we'd just end up paying more VAT or income tax or... You can bet your life the change would not be revenue neutral and we would end up paying more overall.

MBQ

What worries me about your comment is the implicit assumption that taxes are, like air, vital to the continuance of life.

But then, you do suckle at the public tit.

OT Also we are seeing many more large vehicles on the roads now though. SUV's with associated high fuel consumption (yes I know -relatively- it doesn't look that bad - but -absolute- fuel consumtion is what gets used). The government are doing nothing about raising the tax on such large behicles (a vehicle tax they *should* increase imho).

Petrol (gas) is sold by the litre not by the gallon over here and currently is 90p (0.90 British pounds) per litre.

One Imperial (British) gallon is 4.55 litres therefore petrol costs 4.55 x 0.9 = £4.095 (British pounds) per British gallon.

HOWEVER, an American gallon is only 80% of a British gallon so there are

Therefore, the price of an American gallon of petrol is 3.785 X 0.9 = £3.41 (british pounds).

At an exchange rate of $1.80 = £1 (British pound) an American gallon costs $6.13.

Well, you did ask :)

I don't know what you mean by "standard pump price".

My medium-sized saloon does 35mpg (British gallon).

On 18 Aug 2005, dave wrote

Do all the UK posters who are saying "£1/litre" live in central London, or is Hampshire unique in paying around 10p/litre less than that?

I just checked a receipt, and I paid 90.9 p/litre last Monday at Tesco. Even the extortionate BP station near us hasn't pushed its luck past

Why? They consume more petrol so they pay more fuel duty.

MBQ

Our responses we put at the bottom.

I wonder about the mentality of people who wonder about the mentality of people who don't agree with them too. If we need extra taxes for the NHS then lets raise it for that purpose. We have such a stupid web of tax interactions no one knows what the hell is really happening and all sorts of things are being paid for by "other" things. Keeps the tax beauocracy in business I suppose - more waste. As to paying more overall - that's pure speculation and just impossible to verify. Bet your life on it if you want, I'm more sensible.