This photo was captured by a friend of mine in Verona, Italy yesterday:
At current exchange rates, the bottom price of 1.733 Euros/Litre for Unleaded Gas, works out to: Cdn$2.35/L or US$8.80/gallon.
Current gas prices in North America can be found here.
I predict keyed gas caps are going to become very popular.
So why the high prices or is this the price of being green?
Ifthat’s the case drill baby drill !! i could carel ess about the baby chickens and save the whales and all of that fantacy unicorn fart stuff …..just givem e cheap fuel and i am happy !! if it cost’s me more to drive to work than the money i acutally make i will obviously not work and become a serf just liek these idiotas!! lol. anyway god bless canada ,brad wall ,stephen harper and the conservatives, and all the oil and gas companies and workers herei n canada.
And this is the energy future yearned for by obozo.
BTW, is “senza piombo” related to those La Senza shops I see at the mall?
Calgary under a dollar —–> Boo-yah!
Wow, those poor Italians. Here in the Blessed Land, us lucky Ontario types -only- pay $1.27 a quart. Four more years of McSquinty will no doubt take care of the difference.
the price of oil has very little to do with the price of gasoline. the bulk of the price of gasoline is taxes. its the ultimate scheme as the government gets most of the money, the customer gets the screw. and the kid making minimum wage takes the brunt of the anger.
“Senza piombo” means “lead-free”. I didn’t realise that any country in the world still used leaded gas. Teraethyl lead is a genuinely toxic chemical.
Those are not out of line for Europe. In 2000 I was paying $2 a litre in France.
Of course that also meant I got to drive on the best roads I have ever seen with the best drivers I have run across in almost 20 different countries.
So why the high prices or is this the price of being green?
Not at all, though ‘green’ is a common excuse for raising prices on anything.
The price we pay at the pumps is supposedly related to the ‘world oil price’ quoted on the evening news. However, most of the oil for making fuel in N. America comes from Canada and Mexico. You can be sure that those refineries are not paying ‘world oil price’ for their feedstock. The pump price is carefully calculated as the most people will pay before significantly reducing their consumption of fuel. They know they’ve got the consumer over a barrel and don’t mind sticking it to us because we don’t have any other choice.
…Or do we?
“I didn’t realise that any country in the world still used leaded gas”
They don’t.
The price of refined gas in all western countries is pretty much the same.
The price differences you see are in the added TAXES per litre.
Also,if I’m not mistaken,the octane rating of European gasoline is much,much higher than in North America.
Our highest octane (Super 94)is probably too LOW to be sold over there.
Somebody needs to market a viable WOOD GAS conversion system for cars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
My wife and I honeymooned in Portugal 25 years ago. We were paying about $0.70/litre then, and oil was only $30/bbl. As someone else pointed out, European countries tax the heck out of gas/diesel, so why the taxes might have gone up when they’re all broke shouldn’t be a mystery to anyone.
Gee you would have thunk the Libyans would have cut the Italanos a break after putting them in power. Oh ya, I forgot it was the Canadian Airforce that did that. I understand the Euro support forces were pretty good at keeping the air up in the tires!
I also understand that Euros voted down a full boycott of Iranian oil exports to Euroland. Apparently it is ‘clean’ oil vs Canadian tar oil. Might I suggest that the next time (which will be sooner than later) the shit hits the fan that Canada sit it out. Canadian forces have been to Sudan, Iraq, Afganistan and Libya to fight for the continued supply of oil to Europe. Not again PMSH. It is not in our national interest. As Syrians call for Nato involvement in their tribal uprising I again say no.
I still haven’t figured out why there is tax on gasoline.
Is it because we are taking it out of the ground which belongs to the province or country?
“So why the high prices or is this the price of being green?”
“I still haven’t figured out why there is tax on gasoline.”
One reason is that most European countries (and Japan/S. Korea, etc.) import all of their oil. The tax is an effective incentive to reduce consumption and thus imported oil.