NationStates Jolt Archive


The Price of Gasoline

Ashmoria
05-07-2008, 01:45
ive decided that we need a survey of what various people in various places are paying for gasoline and how it compares to the price of some other common commodity.

so

the last time you put gas in your vehicle what was the unit price?

how much did it cost to fill it up?

how long will that gas last you?

what do you pay for a loaf of bread?

dont worry about the units. we're all smart. we can convert to local systems.

gas here in town is $3.95/gallon. it cost me $52 the last time i filled the tank. if i dont have to go out of town, it lasts me 2 weeks. if i have to go to albuquerque (tomorrow morning) it lasts me 1 week.

i pay $4 for a loaf of "fancy" bread but i could buy crappy industrial white bread for less than $2/ loaf.
NERVUN
05-07-2008, 01:54
The last time I filled up, gas was 168 yen a liter (Currently it's 181 per L). It cost me 4345円 to fill up my little car. Normally that would last me two weeks, but with the summer heat on and the need for A/C, that will be cut down by a few days.

As for bread, depending on what I buy, a "loaf" (Which in Japan means 8 slices of bread) costs me 159 yen.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
05-07-2008, 02:04
What a timely question... Today, average gas prices in Germany rose to €1.60 per liter.

That's US$9.50 per gallon.

Just sayin'...


I haven't filled up the car in forever, I usually only get gas for €20 or €30 or so.

I pay on average around €3 for a loaf of bread, I think (prices vary widely between sliced bread from the supermarket shelf and a normal bakery and an organic bakery and I buy at all three so I lose track).
Boonytopia
05-07-2008, 02:05
I paid AUD$1.71 per litre when I filled up with premium unleaded petrol last weekend. I have a 60 litre tank, so whatever the maths on that is.

Edit: $102.60

I catch public transport to work & usually when I got out as well, so I only drive the car once or twice a week. A tank will take me about 550-600km in the city & 700-750km in the country. I probably only fill up once every couple of months on normal city driving.

A loaf of bread costs me about $3.50.
Conserative Morality
05-07-2008, 02:09
$4.10 a gallon here.
Ashmoria
05-07-2008, 02:11
The last time I filled up, gas was 168 yen a liter (Currently it's 181 per L). It cost me 4345円 to fill up my little car. Normally that would last me two weeks, but with the summer heat on and the need for A/C, that will be cut down by a few days.

As for bread, depending on what I buy, a "loaf" (Which in Japan means 8 slices of bread) costs me 159 yen.

what kind of car do you drive?

and is japanese bread GOOD?
NERVUN
05-07-2008, 02:42
what kind of car do you drive?
A Toyota Starlet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Starlet#90_Series ), a small little hatchback.

and is japanese bread GOOD?
Well, depends. Going to the bread section in Japan is interesting as the Japanese tend to have a wide variety of, hmm, interesting breads that usually are very, very good. Finding just good, plain, white bread for toast is hard. Finding something other than white bread for toast is next to impossible.
Ryadn
05-07-2008, 03:11
The last time I filled up gas was $4.57 USD. It was around $65 USD to fill up, which will last me somewhere between one and two weeks. A loaf of bread is about $4.20 USD.
Calarca
05-07-2008, 03:40
$2.17 a litre NZD. to fill up the Hilux tank (400Kmish) and 2x 20L cans for the farm quad bike cost $209 NZD. thats about 2 weeks for the hilux and about 3 weeks for the bike. Less if I take the Hilux to town (200Km round trip plus driving around town) instead of the van. The van has a 55L tank, but rarely get filled from empty, instead it gets topped up at the last fuel station on the way out of town each trip in.

We'll go to town about once a week. the rest of the week we use the hilux, a 300cc honda ATV and a 1500cc 35Hp tractor around the farm.


A loaf of bread ranges from a cheap loss leader 600gm loaf in the supermarket at $1.10, up to fancy specialty bread at $7.00 for a 1kg loaf. we often just use a breadmaker. raw ingredients come to roughly $1 a loaf for a 1Kg loaf.
Wilgrove
05-07-2008, 03:46
$40 for 10 gallons.
Skaladora
05-07-2008, 04:04
I ride the bus, therefore I point at all you gasoline addicts and laugh.

Laugh, I say!
Self-sacrifice
05-07-2008, 04:16
Well at least in Australia it is. Thats just due to our dollar currently :D
As a percentage of income the price of petrol in the family budget has been decreasing. I know that car owners hate this being said but 10 years ago a larger percentage of the budget went to petrol for the car.

The fact is that whilst petrol in Australia has increased, the wage has risen by more.

It is more fun however to claim that big oil or the government is ripping you off. Because if thats the case you will end up having more money to spend on other things.
Skalvia
05-07-2008, 04:50
$3.96/gallon...Ten Cents higher than the time before that, crazy...

and it cost me $20, but i only filled up Half the Tank...

Man, i wish theyd get it together and get these down, its fuckin crazy...

Theyre arguing over whether we need to drill more or introduce a windfall profits tax...

And im sittin here like...WHY THE HELL CANT WE DO BOTH!? thats what we need, damn Dems and Reps...fuckin crazy..:headbang:
Anti-Social Darwinism
05-07-2008, 04:54
Currently, we're paying $3.85/gal. The last time I filled up, it cost $33.00. I don't drive much and group my errands, so one tank will last me about 3-4 weeks. The kind of bread I like, coincidentally, costs as much as a gallon of gas.
Ryadn
05-07-2008, 05:06
Currently, we're paying $3.85/gal. The last time I filled up, it cost $33.00. I don't drive much and group my errands, so one tank will last me about 3-4 weeks. The kind of bread I like, coincidentally, costs as much as a gallon of gas.

I am positively green with envy. :(
Ashmoria
05-07-2008, 05:09
I am positively green with envy. :(

ya but she has to live in colorado.

oh yeah, thats a good thing.

nevermind.
Sarkhaan
05-07-2008, 06:30
$4.12/gal last I filled, but I rarely use my car at this time of year (I only use it to drive back home, to and from work [out for the season] and groceries once a week)

a loaf of split top, store brand wheat bread is $2.00

2% store brand gallon of milk was $3.99

Boston, MA, btw.
Bubabalu
05-07-2008, 17:45
Central North Carolina $4.05 per gallon as of this morning.

Loaf of bread, anywhere from about $3.00 for Natures Own honey wheat to $1.10 for the Aldi's brand honey wheat.
Yootopia
05-07-2008, 17:46
If we're talking diesel, we here in the UK are paying about $12 per US gallon. Yeah, it's that bad. Petrol is a 'mere' $11.
Marrakech II
05-07-2008, 19:19
We fill our cars every time we stop to fill up. So thing is that we have to go inside now rather than pay at the pump. Reason being is that the pumps automatically put a limit of $75 on transactions. It now costs $80 to fill one and $130 to fill the other that we drive mostly. I have a run around car that only takes about $40 but that's because it has a small gas tank. Gas prices in my area (metro Seattle) is about $4.20 a gallon (1.105 liter) at the competitive priced stations.
JuNii
05-07-2008, 19:22
the last time you put gas in your vehicle what was the unit price? Sister's car. yesterday (7/4)

how much did it cost to fill it up?$39.54 ($4.47/gal)

how long will that gas last you? week... week and a half... around there.

what do you pay for a loaf of bread?... $3 something... maybe $4...

oh, and you need to ask people to post WHERE they are from.

Me? Hawaii.
Zilam
05-07-2008, 19:49
ive decided that we need a survey of what various people in various places are paying for gasoline and how it compares to the price of some other common commodity.

so

the last time you put gas in your vehicle what was the unit price? 4.13/gal

how much did it cost to fill it up? I didn't fill up. I just put $20 in. I have a 15ish gallon tank, I believe. That $20 took me from a quarter of a tank of gas to a little over half full

how long will that gas last you?Probably two weeks or so, considering I don't use my car as often anymore. If I used it like normal, I would think it would be around 230 miles, as that is the distance between my home and my campus, and I use a half a tank of gas to get between the two places.

what do you pay for a loaf of bread?My bread only costs around $1.17

dont worry about the units. we're all smart. we can convert to local systems.

gas here in town is $3.95/gallon. it cost me $52 the last time i filled the tank. if i dont have to go out of town, it lasts me 2 weeks. if i have to go to albuquerque (tomorrow morning) it lasts me 1 week.

i pay $4 for a loaf of "fancy" bread but i could buy crappy industrial white bread for less than $2/ loaf.

Answers are in bold. :)
Yootopia
05-07-2008, 19:54
Answers are in bold. :)
$1.17 for a loaf of bread?

It's about $2.60 here. Ridiculous. And for anything good - eh $5/6
Conserative Morality
05-07-2008, 19:59
ive decided that we need a survey of what various people in various places are paying for gasoline and how it compares to the price of some other common commodity.

so

the last time you put gas in your vehicle what was the unit price?

how much did it cost to fill it up?

how long will that gas last you?

what do you pay for a loaf of bread?

Well, not MY car but...

$4.16 a gallon

We didn't "Fill up", but it was twenty something so my mother could get to work without the car dieing on her.

Two days, five on vacation weeks.

One dollar for the cheap stuff. Three and a half for the good bakery stuff.
Fassitude
05-07-2008, 20:00
Last time I put petrol in the car it was around 14 kr/litre (€1.49/l, US$ 8.86/gallon). I rarely ever fill the car up, as I don't drive more than once or twice per week or less than that, and I never buy loafs of bread, but I guess an average no-frills loaf would cost 22 kr/€2.24/US$ 3.68.
Bewilder
05-07-2008, 20:21
£1.16 per litre (although prices are different every visit at the moment), about £65 to fill up, lasts a week with care, and I pay 37p / loaf for budget sliced bread.
Rotten bacon
05-07-2008, 20:27
it costs me $4.25 american to get a gallon of gas. i live up north of seattle by the canadian border.
Zilam
05-07-2008, 20:42
$1.17 for a loaf of bread?

It's about $2.60 here. Ridiculous. And for anything good - eh $5/6

Well this is the cheapest white bread money can buy.
Ashmoria
05-07-2008, 21:01
£1.16 per litre (although prices are different every visit at the moment), about £65 to fill up, lasts a week with care, and I pay 37p / loaf for budget sliced bread.

thats a brutal gas price. do you have a long drive every day?

and thats a very cheap bread price. are you sure it supports human life?
Smunkeeville
05-07-2008, 21:33
A Toyota Starlet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Starlet#90_Series ), a small little hatchback.
That's cute! I wish I could have one.


@OP

I filled up this morning......well, mostly. It was $3.97/gal. I put $50 in, the tank wasn't empty though, and it's not completely full......but I had $50 budgeted for gas, so that's what I got. The tank will last me between 2 and 3weeks depending on how much I have to drive. Since we moved I can walk more places, like the grocery store which is only 2 miles away now, and the library is a mile away.

I pay between $6 and $10 for a loaf of bread, cheaper if I make it myself......it's like $5 a loaf then, but it doesn't taste as good.
Marrakech II
05-07-2008, 22:02
I ride the bus, therefore I point at all you gasoline addicts and laugh.

Laugh, I say!

I laugh at those that ride the bus with the crazies. So there. :D
Marrakech II
05-07-2008, 22:06
Well this is the cheapest white bread money can buy.

When I was a kid the cheap white bread cost about .30 cents.
Bewilder
05-07-2008, 22:52
thats a brutal gas price. do you have a long drive every day?

and thats a very cheap bread price. are you sure it supports human life?

The daily round trip is roughly 85 miles, but is usually fairly easy traffic, so not too much sitting in queues. The bread is actually ok, especially of you toast it, although I doubt it has any nutritional value :p I'd say the average loaf is probably nearer 90p, but I'm on a budget so Asda (walmart) smart price it is.
Kyronea
05-07-2008, 23:38
Currently, we're paying $3.85/gal. The last time I filled up, it cost $33.00. I don't drive much and group my errands, so one tank will last me about 3-4 weeks. The kind of bread I like, coincidentally, costs as much as a gallon of gas.

You guys are only 3.85 down in Colorado Springs?! Up here it's already over four dollars.
Kyronea
05-07-2008, 23:50
I ride the bus, therefore I point at all you gasoline addicts and laugh.

Laugh, I say!
And just what do you think that bus runs on? Hmm?
JuNii
06-07-2008, 00:12
And just what do you think that bus runs on? Hmm?

and on this note, I say our Bus fare is $2.00 with one transfer, $40 for a monthly Bus pass. $140 for an annual pass. (all adult fare)
Fassitude
06-07-2008, 00:37
And just what do you think that bus runs on? Hmm?

Not petrol. I haven't seen a bus that runs on petrol in a decade. So, was your question to serve some purpose?
The Scandinvans
06-07-2008, 00:38
I am positively green with envy. :(*Checks to make sure that they are not developing cellouse in their skin.*
Katganistan
06-07-2008, 02:22
The last thing I paid for gas was $4.30 a gallon.
Tooling around town, it will probably last me 1.5-2 weeks.
Bread: $1.69
Anti-Social Darwinism
06-07-2008, 02:38
You guys are only 3.85 down in Colorado Springs?! Up here it's already over four dollars.

It's been holding steady at 3.85 for the past month at most of the stations on North Academy. And it's a good thing, too. I just got an adjustment to my pension - a whopping 20.00 a month more. That doesn't even begin to cover the increase in gas prices, if it goes up any more, I'll have to stop driving altogether.
Kyronea
06-07-2008, 03:15
Not petrol. I haven't seen a bus that runs on petrol in a decade. So, was your question to serve some purpose?
Well, yes, assuming it does run on gasoline/petrol.

But if it doesn't I have no point. It was mainly just a tongue in cheek poke anyway. I happily support mass transit(my dad couldn't get to work everyday otherwise.)

ASD: Well, hang in there best you can.
Capilatonia
06-07-2008, 03:17
Why use gas when you can use solar? It's easier, cheaper and more convenient. Workin' out great for me.
Nobel Hobos
06-07-2008, 03:51
Why use gas when you can use solar? It's easier, cheaper and more convenient. Workin' out great for me.

You drive a solar-powered car?
The South Islands
06-07-2008, 03:55
I filled up last in Northwestern Ohio at $3.90 a gallon. Milk is $3.03 for a gallon of Meijer skim (or 2.50 if on sale), my bread was about $2.00 last time (buy one get one free, w0t).
Jachel
06-07-2008, 03:59
You drive a solar-powered car?

No, he drives a bicycle powered by solar-energy, silly.

gas costs 3.85 dollars here in upper New-Mexico.

On the bright side, everything save a store is within walking distance and I don't mind it.

On the down side, we had a very terrible snow storm up here last winter which caused our store to cave in, they still haven't even begun to build a new one. The nearest place to even get anything we can't find in a dollar store is 50 miles so every week I spend quite a lot on gas to go stock up on food.

Milk is 3.25 and so it ends up with 9.75$ for milk

Bread is about 3.50, can't remember exactly.

One of the most absurd costs right now are the old ladies selling home made mexican food on the streets. They have nothing more then the food and a dish but it costs a total of 25$ for one pack of tamales, and I made a batch with the total cost being about 20$. Fucking scammers.
New Moreton
06-07-2008, 04:33
Brisbane Australia

$1.60 AUD for a liter (last Tuesday anyway). So about $5.82 USD a gallon. Put about $65 dollars should last about 2 weeks since not driving that much.

Bread about $3.50 AUD for anything decent from the supermarket.
Calarca
06-07-2008, 08:52
No, he drives a bicycle powered by solar-energy, silly.


Veges and fruit are just refined solar power, and meat is the same thing just even more refined and concentrated :D

and if you eat them and ride a bike, the bike sure 'nuff is solar powered :D
Aryavartha
06-07-2008, 09:58
I think I paid about 48/49 Rs for a litre of petrol when I was in India a week back.

It is 1.30 something pounds a litre near where I stay in UK now.

It's about 4.50 dollars a gallon in Seattle.

I would say Britain is the costliest I've experienced...but then in Britain I get good gas mileages out of the small cars and also mass/public transportation (trains and buses) is good.

In India also, the public transportation is good and I typically use bikes to get around.

It is in US that I get screwed if I consider total costs.

Loaf of bread?

I honestly don't have a clue. When I am traveling, it's all expensed so I never check food prices...and at home we don't eat bread.
G3N13
06-07-2008, 10:35
Gasoline ~1.60 €/litre, diesel ~1.40 €/litre.

Bread, anything from 70 cents to few euros depending on whether it's plastic bagged "bun" (white bread eg. french bread or toasts) or "real bread" in paper bag (eg. this (http://www.kannistonleipomo.fi/product_images/S1182753716834.jpg))
Greater Wuzzlefump
06-07-2008, 12:54
Gas here in Iowa is $3.87/gallon. Costs around $40 to top up the tank which gets me through a normal month.

Bread is just under $2 for the cheap stuff. Quality breads cost $3-5.
The imperian empire
06-07-2008, 13:06
In the UK, Petrol is around £1.20 a UK Litre, and Diesel, about £1.30 for the same amount. Roughly £5.50 for a UK gallon (which is slightly bigger than a US gallon I think)

Loaf of bread, about 70 pence to £1.30 depending on maker, and quality. About 20 -25 slices.
New Wallonochia
06-07-2008, 13:25
I haven't actually bought gas or bread in almost six months. I'm afraid I'll cry when I get home.

According to the Internets gas is about $0.80/gallon near where I live, but since Uncle Sam buys my fuel...
Alexandrian Ptolemais
06-07-2008, 13:59
Well, I don't have a car, but the most recent petrol price around my parts is NZ$2.08 a litre for Unleaded 91; I know someone who recently paid $100 for a tank of gas, and this was after they used a discount voucher (in New Zealand, the supermarkets give discount vouchers for petrol if you spend more than NZ$40); which had cut that by ten cents a litre. That tank lasts anywhere between a week or two weeks, and that is usually about 500km of travelling.

I mainly use the train though, and that works out at an average of NZ$2.28 a ride from my station to the City; or I use a monthly pass that costs me NZ$105 - of course, the train is getting so popular in Auckland that sets are running above their design capacity (seated + standing) during the peak hour. Even with another set coming in this week, I think that Auckland's trains will probably still be like this until electrification.
Ashmoria
06-07-2008, 14:36
I haven't actually bought gas or bread in almost six months. I'm afraid I'll cry when I get home.

According to the Internets gas is about $0.80/gallon near where I live, but since Uncle Sam buys my fuel...

are you touring the colorful and exotic middle east at the behest of uncle sam?
New Wallonochia
06-07-2008, 14:39
are you touring the colorful and exotic middle east at the behest of uncle sam?

I don't know that "colorful" really describes it. I suppose brown is a color, but monotone isn't really "colorful".
SaintB
06-07-2008, 15:50
Gasoline has hit $4.05 here, fluctuates daily between that and $3.99 per gallon.

Costs about $80 to fill the whole tank.

I buy my bread for about $1.42 a loaf.

A better comparison might be milk, ($3.88 around here) since it can be bought at comparable volume.
Ashmoria
06-07-2008, 16:18
Gasoline has hit $4.05 here, fluctuates daily between that and $3.99 per gallon.

Costs about $80 to fill the whole tank.

I buy my bread for about $1.42 a loaf.

A better comparison might be milk, ($3.88 around here) since it can be bought at comparable volume.

i wasnt wanting to compare the price of bread to the price of gas. i wanted to have another thing to compare prices of...to see if gas was relatively more expensive than bread, as an example.

and more people eat bread than drink milk.

turns out that there is far more cheap bread than cheap gas.
SaintB
06-07-2008, 16:26
i wasnt wanting to compare the price of bread to the price of gas. i wanted to have another thing to compare prices of...to see if gas was relatively more expensive than bread, as an example.

and more people eat bread than drink milk.

turns out that there is far more cheap bread than cheap gas.

Was just making the suggestion; while more people might eat bread than drink milk the two commodities come in similer volumes making (to me) easier comparisons.
Mansuri
06-07-2008, 20:19
Gasoline has hit $4.05 here, fluctuates daily between that and $3.99 per gallon.

Costs about $80 to fill the whole tank.

I buy my bread for about $1.42 a loaf.

A better comparison might be milk, ($3.88 around here) since it can be bought at comparable volume.


Yes milk used to be cheaper too before gas prices rose. So I guess theres a milk stortage as well. Or could it be that everyone see's an opportunity to raise there prices.
Fruits of the Plague
06-07-2008, 22:16
$4.39 gasoline! [1]
Noisnemid
06-07-2008, 22:23
fruits, you got teh shaft... we pay $4.04 where i live *at the cheapest* because most of the gas stations aren't even selling it at a profit, the majority where i am are just breaking even...

it costs me about $30 to fill up, but i've got a small car..

and i'm out of bread, so i'm not sure what the prices are...

something MUST be done about gas prices... best idea i've heard yet *some people are actually doing this* is geneticly engineering E-coli to produce hydro-carbons... pump nutrients in one side, gas comes out the other... i like this idea... then again theres also a rice famine, but thats for a different thread.
Fruits of the Plague
06-07-2008, 22:25
New York State,

my car is a Ford from the grunge era and gets 19 mpg.

it's not even an SUV or truck or van,

it's a shiny red Thunderbird.
Aurill
07-07-2008, 13:38
South of Houston, I paid $3.78/gallon at a grocery store, and that was with a 10 cent discount. The regular price was $3.88. Though the name brand gas station next door was $3.95.