fuel prices

[The Doctor]

Nation City Price in USD Regular/Gallon
Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Norway Oslo $6.27
Italy Milan $5.96
Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
Belgium Brussels $5.91
Sweden Stockholm $5.80
United Kingdom London $5.79
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
France Paris $5.54
Portugal Lisbon $5.35
Hungary Budapest $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia Zagreb $4.81
Ireland Dublin $4.78
Switzerland Geneva $4.74
Spain Madrid $4.55
Japan Tokyo $4.24
Czech Republic Prague $4.19
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia Tallinn $3.62
Bulgaria Sofia $3.52
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Cuba Havana $3.03
Taiwan Taipei $2.84
Lebanon Beirut $2.63
South Africa Johannesburg $2.62
Nicaragua Managua $2.61
Panama Panama City $2.19
Russia Moscow $2.10
Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12

OMG.....

[Mux213]

Scary isn't it


our country is so so so so nice NOT!

[NoHachi]

Depends on how you look at it. You're doing a lot of damage driving around in that car of yours, might as well pay the correct price. New EU regulations will impose VERY large penalties on some environmental emission levels. These penalties are needed because the levels have been proven to have signifficant impacts on your health. Think about it, it has to be serious in order for those morons at the EU to come to a collective decision.

To bad for us that the whole of the Netherlands is heavily urbanised and has a lot of cars. Basically the complete country fails the standards in a big way.

[Jezza_hr]

It would seem a load of people in the UK have started a campaign to try and stop people buying from BP and Esso to try and get them to drop their prices.

[NoHachi]

I think that its the same email that has been going round for two years now..won't work.

Just get used to it guys...you're going to pay those prices..if it isn't through petrol prices (which is a VERY fair way of paying for mobility..you pay exactly the amount that you consume..want to drive a polutive/heavy car..fine, but you'll notice it through the added fuelconsumption.) then it'll be though other taxes...

I'm actually for even higher petrol prices, but NO roadtax and NO VAT etc when you buy a car...That would make it possible to buy a nice car for the weekends (about half the price here in Holland) but not being able to drive it all week. Then get a grocery getter for normal driving....best of both worlds.

[Blueneon]

TBH I dont care less what it costs, I only ever use Shell optimax, its a great fuel and worth the extra 6p a litre (I tried it in my Jap import van it i could notice the difference even in that!)

If i want low price motoring ill buy a diesel with a tiny engine or a new Ayago
I choose to drive a turbo charged sports car and cant stand the whingy people who moan becuse a liter of 4 star is a £1 If you are that much of a bunny loving tree hugger buy a bicycle

Rant over!

Normal service resumed.

[robokill]

and the winner is DINGDINGDINGDING

YES

The Netherlands

How much money can you take from civilians :-)

christ they should stop saying its the economy

[jamiemirror]

The data for Sofia is incorrect.
Here regular is priced $4.28 /gallon now.

[JonT]

The prices were based on March 2005, i think all of them have been going up recently. Currently our government takes 67% of the money as tax. We also pay annual road tax as well none of which goes towards improving the roads.

Its OK if you don't use the car much, but i live in the middle of the countryside, with no other forms of transport available, so i don't cause any city congestion but have to pay the taxes designed to keep the cars out of the cities.

The other downside is that the increase in fuel prices will lead to an increase in almost everything as the manufacturers have to cover their transport costs.

I certainly think my next family car will run on LPG as that is currently about 40% of petrol.

[NoHachi]

So price alone has made you consider more environmentally friendly fuel sources (LPG has shorter carbon chains and thus produces less CO2)..thats ok.
In Holland we will start to approach the point where the taxes collected from fuel do not measure up against the fines from the EU..Have any of you ever considered that the 60% tax is there to make you pay the real price of your mobility?

Anyway..please don't get angry over my rantings here...I was once a petroll head just like you guys (still am). But studying the subject over a couple of years has made me realise one thing..there is no way that things can go on the way that they have been going the past years. The end of the oil reserves is starting to get near (also see the press statement from that American oil company recently..think about how far it has come, in order to have an oil company plead for more attention for alternative fuel sources!) and we are totally unprepared at the moment.
China and the rest of the develloping East will make sure that we'll go through the remaining bits at lightspeed. That is going to mean around 2 to 3 times the amount of people we have here in the "west" burning through masive amounts of fuel in devices that use 60's and 70's technology...its going to be interesting to see what that will do to the environment...compared to that we have been amateurs.

Blah blah blah...sorry to be a bore...