Following on from the recent petrol price rise here in the UK, I was interested to see recent BBC TV and online articles (1), (2) last night about the comparison of petrol prices in the USA. Looking to this further into this, I came across site ‘Gas Buddy’ (Technically a very interesting application) that covers USA national ‘Gas’ prices on a county by county basis.
Moving on from this I made a table that shows a comparison with the UK petrol prices which I took from PetrolPrices.com.
| Lowest Price | Highest Price | |
| US (Gallon) national prices by Gasbuddy.com | $ 2.39 | $ 3.25 |
| Equiv. US (Gallon) cost in UK £(1 US $ = UK £0.52 – Travelex) | £ 1.24 | £ 1.70 |
| US Gallon cost to Ltr Cost (1 US gallon = 3.7854118 litre – Google) | £ 1.24 ÷ 3.78 | £ 1.70 ÷ 3.25 |
| Therefore US ‘litre’ UK price – mjm!) | 32.8p | 52.3p |
| UK national prices by Petrolprices.com | 90.9p | 104.9p |
| USA cheaper per litre by: | 58.1p | 52.6p |
This just shows how expensive petrol has become in the UK.
Learnt something about ‘how’ tables work in Blogger with this post.
I’m trying out another Blog editor, seem better than the previous one.
This is RocketPost blog software.
I went to the USA on business about two years ago and on the day of my arrival the big news on all the front pages was the spiraling cost of petrol (gas).>>I had to laugh at this as the Americans were paying 79p per gallon. This at a time were we were paying 79p per litre!>>The disparity really hit me at the pump when I only had to pay the equivelent of just over £10 for a full tank. the previous I had fulled up at home and it cost me £45 for a similar amount.>>I wish the Americans would stop moaning about it.>>Regards.>>Chris.
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