GT-ER

Yesterday I pumped $90 into my car...this is crazy. I remember filling up gas tanks with $20....and I'm only 31 years old.

E55Dimon

Yes..with a good carwash I leave a benjamin.

hyperion667

that is high.....and I though
72 to fill up was tough......
they say it's only getting higher....

GregMB

Imagine if you'd filled up at Lukoil.....

Hey were charging $9.99/gal last week.


-G

HeissRod

$3.89ish per gallon right now for me

e55amgrocket

Filled up my diesel truck Friday night for $261 so consider yourself lucky.

baldguy

You guys have it good..... Stop complaining....... It takes £135 to my fill my ML63 which is roughly $220 and that lasts me a week!!!

alextaylor29

Puts in all in perspective.

GT-ER

Yup, my bro filled his dually with $500 not to long ago...but he added a 100 gallon tank to it so.... lol

Holyyy crap...I'd spend more on gas than I do paying the cars I own if that were the case here. Yikes!

$4.47 here for 93oct. If I were to stick with 91 I can get it for $4.13...not worth it imo...lol.

hyperion667

yes but in the US we consume much more, and isn't the UK the size of NC?? ours should be less than yours because we use so much....

we're number one in something! LOL

but sheesh, that still is exceedingly high!

hyperion667

moosejaw

In your country a third of your costs in gasoline is tax. Tax which directly pays for roads and infrastructure on a national basis.

Our taxes are much less in the usa (federal, state, and local) and equate to 7-8% as a national average. Most of this is state tax which goes right into the budget, I guess you can say the federal tax left over pays for roads and infrastructure.

To put things in perspective, your referring to a pain at the pump scenario. If you break it down by country you can see who really suffers the most. In the US the average person spends 2.8 % of their daily income (at $128/day)to buy one gallon of gas.... For comparison....

• Norway.................3.7% yet the average daily income is $280/day. (USD)
• Denmark..............5.2%
• Turkey................32%.......to be fair Turkey has no formal taxation system and relies on consumption taxes. Only 40% of the country pays income tax.
• Israel..................11%
• United Kingdom....7.4%.............average daily income is $106/day.......so yes your hurting bad.
• Sweden...............5.1%
• Canada......3.9%.........average daily income is $141/day
• India......1.5 days income to buy a gallon of gas.........average daily income is $3.40/day and while gasoline is heavily heavily subsidized by the govt, not surprisingly due to low wages it has the lowest gas consumption.
• Brazil.......20% of income based on a daily average income of $34USD. This surprised me as brazil is resource powerhouse. 40% of vehicles on the road in brazil use 100% E-100 Ethanol which is more than half the cost of Gasohol which is E-25. Most vehicles run on these two fuels. I guess your screwed if you drive a AMG.

List of Countries that pay less than we do :

• Russia........9%
• Mexico......11%
• Pakistan....needs a full day wages to buy one gallon of gas.
• Iran..........16%
• Eqypt.........20%
• United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.........less than 1%
• Venezuela..... .3% (note gas is VZ is heavily subsidized)

I want to point out gas in Venezuela seems cheap, but that's not the real cost. Poor people in VZ take the bus, only the rich and powerful drive, the middle class can only afford a small car. Low gas prices are kept in place to keep the common folk content so they wont riot and get of hand under the rule of a brutal dictatorship. Its just a wizard of oz scenario. Truth is in the Venezuelan budget, 20% of the national budget is spent on subsidized gas. Tell that to your South American friend next time he brags how cheap gas is.

urbamworm

Some coworkers of mine when working in Bahrain (middle east) were paying less than 1$/gallon for fuel. Absolutely ridiculous how bad we/others get raped while pennies gets you fuel over there.

I pay for diesel where I am in Italy with NATO "gas coupons" which are not taxed so we save a little on taxes when we buy those, but I needed fuel and didn't have any so used a credit card to get just enough to make it to get more coupons. Cost me 10 Euro for 1.3 gallons (it is right at $10/gallon for diesel), 1 Euro is about $1.30 so it cost $13 for not even 1.5 gallons. I have a Opal Astra wagon with 2 liter 4 cylinder turbo diesel and it cost me (well company I work for actually) 90 Euro ($117) to fill it the other day. The thing only holds like 13 gallons (50 liters)!!! And diesel is cheaper than gasoline here so if I was filling up my E55 with gas I would definitely need some **** ease considering I would probably go through $150 in fuel every 5 days.

zneB-sedecreM

I just spent around $300 filling up my CL55........with race fuel
I can't complain about that lol

kustom2k1

National average is headed for $6. Bernanke print fest on the way and tensions growing in the ME will show up at the pump.

Havoc

High fuel prices is "one" of the reasons I purchased one of the most fuel efficient AMGs ever produced at 40+ miles per gallon!

urbamworm

Quit buying from the middle east and use our own reserves and hit them hard in the pocket then they will perhaps not rape everyone on oil prices considering we are the largest oil consumer. Hell, we have tons of it, so we could hurt their wallet bad for longer than they could care to have happen and I am sure they would change their tune then.

I want it to be back a $1.17/gallon for 87 octane like when I started driving and that was only 14 years ago.

e55amgrocket

If I fill my truck and the transfer tank (110 gallon) its in the $750 range

GT-ER

HAHA...but it'll last you 6 months and will likely save you money when prices skyrocket.

AgSilver

Great job in laying out the facts! We're all certainly entitled to our own opinion, but not to our own facts.



And that is in Euros per liter. You can do your own arithmetic.

e55amgrocket

I'll get 2 maybe 3 weeks at the most out of it. I usually drive 150 miles a day easily.

GT-ER

Holy crapola!! You must a job jut to pay fuel and another for everything else.

urbamworm

That is cheaper than here, I will snap a pic tomorrow


EDIT: Was bored so ran out to a station down the street to see what the going rate was. This is in Lago Patria, Italy.



Looks to be 28 cents more per liter (1.06 euro per gallon more=~$1.40/gallon more) for the equal grade diesels or 23 cents for the super (gasoline) on the fai da te (do it yourself) side. Guess you "got it good" in Germany haha. If you can consider that good

e55amgrocket

Ahmad(Blackbenzz) knows how much I drive. When I was taking a block and various things around to be built and checked out I drove 561 in a day and a half and never went more than 75 miles from my house. I've got 5 1 ton dump trucks at worn that go thru about 100 gallons each week on average also. The normal fuel cost is around $9k-$11k a month. I can only imagine what big companies put out for fuel

zneB-sedecreM

With many box trucks (14'-18'), vans and pickups owned by our company for deliveries.....I can tell you, the amount spent just for fuel is A LOT. lol
But you need them, they carry the goods. My dad always has a funny saying. He's old school European and came here with no money, broken English and built everything form the ground up. We have a bunch of nice cars in our family (primarily, but not all, made up of nice Mercedes-Benz') But he doesn't really get them for himself. Sure he likes them, but he could care less, he wants everyone in the family to be happy before himself. Well every time someone compliments or fancies one of the nice cars, he always says that he'd rather sell them and keep the pickup/box truck. The MB costs him money and the trucks make him money. lol love him.