Pathetic Panic buying

robynfali · Post by **robynfali** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 2:50 pm

I do find that "most" of these people running to petrol stations are idiots, yeah fair enough some have an empty tank and were going anyway, but running out to stick a tenner in? and now locally people are actually filling their tanks and driving off!!

MUPPETS!!

b.e.wilson · Post by **b.e.wilson** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 3:40 pm

What does your petrol cost? We had a spate of driving off without paying here in the States during the OPEC oil crisis of the 70's, when the price jumped from $0.36/gal to $0.60/gal (£0.33/L to £0.36/L in today's money). Current price: $3.75/gal (£0.62/L).

Post by **steve** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 4:06 pm

Prices in the UK vary depending on where you are; the price here in Orkney is about the highest in the UK. But on average the price in the UK is about the same as you're paying in the US.

Oh, hold on, I forgot about tax. Add about £0.80 per litre to your price.

mcrossley · Post by **mcrossley** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 5:56 pm

Hmm, an attempt by the gov to divert media attention away from Cameron's 'dinners' and Osbourne's 'pasty tax' that has rather backfired on them

jim-easterbrook · Post by **jim-easterbrook** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 6:53 pm

But they've now got a better idea of the public's susceptibility and lack of analytical skills which will help them formulate policy at the next election.

GraemeT · Post by **GraemeT** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 9:16 pm

This week the Australian national average petrol price is $1.53/litre - that's about $5.80/us gallon, or $6.97/imp. gallon!

At this price, we don't have too many people panic buying....or queues, for that matter.

robynfali · Post by **robynfali** » Thu 29 Mar 2012 9:57 pm

At the moment we are paying $11.23 (us) per gallon,

About £7.04 (uk sterling)

GraemeT · Post by **GraemeT** » Fri 30 Mar 2012 3:00 am

OUCH!

...so I guess you don't see too many Hummers getting around then...

PaulMy · Post by **PaulMy** » Fri 30 Mar 2012 3:45 am

We're currently at about C$1.30/litre which includes about 45% taxes markup
http://tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com/londo ... l?city=116

Paul

robynfali · Post by **robynfali** » Fri 30 Mar 2012 7:48 am

GraemeT wrote:OUCH!

...so I guess you don't see too many Hummers getting around then...

Oh, plenty of them in London, including Stretch ones!

robynfali · Post by **robynfali** » Fri 30 Mar 2012 7:52 am

PaulMy wrote:We're currently at about C$1.30/litre which includes about 45% taxes markup
http://tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com/londo ... l?city=116

Paul

Ours works out to about $2.36 Canadian a litre, our tax.....I think its on about 63-65% at the moment

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