It cost $98 to fill up my pickup , good thing it's a company truck and a company gas card !!!!

Now 96p-97p per litre here in UK

At $1.87/£1 that's $1.81 per litre

and at 3.79 litres per US Gallon

that's $6.87 per US Gallon

So to put 14 UK gallons/17.5 US Gallons into my car costs the equivalent today of $120!

Stop moaning!

Our prices seem to rise even when the dollar weakens - price was 92p per litre two months ago when there was $1.74/£1 (=$6.06 per US Gallon)

And I thought alll these oil companies ran sophisticated hedge funds anyway on both oil prices and foreign exchange to limit the impact of short-term market fluctuations.

The only ones to gain are 1). the oil companies who charge accordiing to what the market does and not according to how their own arrangements soften that effect, and 2). the governments who see their %age-based tax incomes rise as the gasoline prices rise at the pumps

To all my Aussie and UK friends--I humbly apologize for my country's incessant whining about high gas prices. American's just like to bitch; we're good at it, and, it passes the time.

To fill up in the UK or Oz sounds downright depressing. I wish they'd unleash that big stash sitting underneath Indonesia...of course, some people say the only way we'll find a new energy source is to be forced off oil.

there are plenty of new energy sources! governments just make too much off oil.
unless thats what you were talking about

Same here, two tanks....$104.00. It is a beast. I am glad my personal vehicle is small. Costs around 35-40 to fill it. I can go for quite a while on one tank around here.

yeah, Bush and Cheney are both oil men. They're loving this.
I'd like to see the corn/fuel stuff happen. An increase in the demand for corn would really help my state out! :) We can grow us some corn out here!

Hydrogen is the answer. Volitile and plentiful and the byproduct is inert. I don't understand the hold up.

Oil based economy... who runs the White House and Pentagon? Not the puppet in it, he does not matter.

Nope, we could run our cars on pixie dust and flea farts, the government would figure out how to make it pay.

Plentiful? Water is plentiful when you die of thirst in a lifeboat, too.
Hydrogen is plentiful but not in a form we can use. It has to be separated from something else, like oxygen in the case of water. Separating takes energy....lots and lots of energy. That's the holdup. :D

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

Wet boards shrink? :right:

no no no.

its

water water everywhere
so lets all have a drink

Hold the water

and hold the broads ................ I mean boards. :blush:

fleas can't fart......

How d'ya think they jump so high?