Originally posted by rod_grant $3 per gallon? I'd go for that!!!!!
In Australia @ $1.50 per litre x 3.79 litres to US gallon + $5.68.
and prices are generally above $1.50, especially in rural areas.
Originally posted by anemone This morning 1.639 €/l and end sum was 87 € to get nice 700+ kilometers travel for Volvo V50. It is about the one day pay after taxes. Welcome to Finland.
Originally posted by Jean Poitiers Filled up the Renault Espace two days ago to come back home from vacation ... only 1.26 €/l at Clermont-Ferrand for a total of 96€ ... the big light blue whale/land yacht has a big belly/tank ... now broke and have to mow the yard. No time to think about a K-3 ... or a bling-bling K-S1
...
I have read about the higher cost for automotive fuels in other parts of the world. It sucks.
I remember when I first started driving the were "gas wars". Service stations (back then they actually had a few bays to work on cars and did quite a bit of business in addition to the gas sales) would get into battles over which one would have the lowest price. I saw regular leaded (yes they still had lead in the gas then, and the quality was much better than today's gas) going as low as $0.19.9 a gallon.
My dad had a bunch of 55 gallon barrels and we would load them into his pickup and go fill them up. Then we had to figure out how to get them out of the pickup and into the barn without getting hurt or killed!
It was only a few years later that there were the "gas shortages", and the prices began to skyrocket. Supposedly OPEC got all jacked up about something and said there was not enough crude to go around.
Next thing I knew the days of gas for less than a dollar a gallon were gone, never to return.
Certainly the high costs of motor fuels will keep many of us from buying a K3.