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WorldOfMagic Ann Castro Post Count: 3 Msg: #1 13 days ago, May 2nd 2008 | I haven't had the pleasure of traveling all over the world but always wondered...are gas prices much more expensive in other countries other than USA? | [Edited: 19:28 - WorldOfMagic ]  Mell Mel Fla Post Count: 1268 Msg: #2 12 days ago, May 4th 2008 | Here is a related thread. | German Fuel Prices Query  ThroughMyEyes Sofia Mona Holzer Post Count: 7 Msg: #3 11 days ago, May 4th 2008 | The list below was taken from CNN money about a week ago. | Nation City Price in USD Regular/Gallon Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48 Norway Oslo $6.27 Italy Milan $5.96 Denmark Copenhagen $5.93 Belgium Brussels $5.91 Sweden Stockholm $5.80 United Kingdom London $5.79 Germany Frankfurt $5.57 France Paris $5.54 Portugal Lisbon $5.35 Hungary Budapest $4.94 Luxembourg $4.82 Croatia Zagreb $4.81 Ireland Dublin $4.78 Switzerland Geneva $4.74 Spain Madrid $4.55 Japan Tokyo $4.24 Czech Republic Prague $4.19 Romania Bucharest $4.09 Andorra $4.08 Estonia Tallinn $3.62 Bulgaria Sofia $3.52 Brazil Brasilia $3.12 Cuba Havana $3.03 Taiwan Taipei $2.84 Lebanon Beirut $2.63 South Africa Johannesburg $2.62 Nicaragua Managua $2.61 Panama Panama City $2.19 Russia Moscow $2.10 Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74 Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91 Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78 Egypt Cairo $0.65 Nigeria Lagos $0.38 Venezuela Caracas $0.12  aspiringnomad Jason Post Count: 22 Msg: #4 11 days ago, May 5th 2008 | Where I fill up in Seoul, Korea: $6.65. | Oil is about $115 a barrel. A man would have to work 20,000hrs to produce an equivalent amount of energy = free energy! But we are now living in the age of peak oil, and it won't be free for too much longer... In 2002, for example, Oil was $20 a barrel. Travel while you can. Mell Mel Fla Post Count: 1268 Msg: #5 11 days ago, May 5th 2008 | The difference in price makes it almost economical for residents of Amsterdam to go fill their tanks in Caracas :-D | aspiringnomad Jason Post Count: 22 Msg: #6 11 days ago, May 5th 2008 | Why not, it's economical for Americans to go fill up their tanks in Baghdad! |  MichaelnFaye Michael & Faye Johnson Post Count: 10 Msg: #7 9 days ago, May 6th 2008 | That list is BS! | Converting it to £ per Litre (using US gallon conversion) means that it's £0.77 a litre... I would love to know where I can fill up for that price! It was more than that when I left to go travelling 1 year ago, now it's £1.10 (or more).... MichaelnFaye Michael & Faye Johnson Post Count: 10 Msg: #8 9 days ago, May 6th 2008 | Using the price of standard unleaded at the fuel station down my road (supermarket) of £1.109 (110.9p)... todays exchange rate (£:$) and the US gallon conversion factor makes it $8.90 a gallon! | holy cow.... boy am I glad I cycle to work and rarely drive my 1 litre engined car!!!!! :)  Going Global Marc Post Count: 14 Msg: #9 9 days ago, May 7th 2008 | Actually, we fill up our tanks in Canada. US Oil Imports | But your comment still made me laugh anyway. And the Baghdad thing is hardly economical...or most of us, at least. aspiringnomad Jason Post Count: 22 Msg: #10 8 days ago, May 7th 2008 | Time is running out...does anyone have a contingency plan? Oil price 'may hit $200 a barrel' Mell Mel Fla Post Count: 1268 Msg: #11 8 days ago, May 7th 2008 | Contingency Plan :D | Put coconuts in the tank instead. [Edited: 14:51 - Mell ] aspiringnomad Jason Post Count: 22 Msg: #12 8 days ago, May 7th 2008 | Unfortunately I missed the coconut contingency plan! | Here are some other options; Hydrogen - it takes 6 gallons of gasoline to make enough hydrogen to drive a car the same distance as one gallon of gasoline. Biomass - we currently put more fossil fuel energy into making ethanol than we currently get out. Bio Diesel - even if we cut down all the rain forests and cranked up production to the max and then multiplied that by a hundred, Bio-diesel would only replace a fraction of the energy we currently gain from oil (Not to mention the starvation and environmental degradation that would occur). Oil is formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants and animals exposed to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over hundreds of MILLIONS of years. For example, it is calculated that the total fossil fuel used in the year 1997 is the result of 422 years of all plant matter that grew on the entire surface and in all the oceans of the ancient earth. Nuclear - we currently use 10 terawatts of energy from Oil per day. To replace that with nuclear power we'd need to build 10,000 of the biggest power stations. If this were to happen the world's stock of uranium would be exhausted in 10 years. The contingency plan I was referring to, was one which would see us living without the energy from oil, or it's 'substitutes'. [Edited: 16:19 - aspiringnomad ]  CanadianViking Josh N Post Count: 33 Msg: #13 8 days ago, May 7th 2008 | Let's not forget solar and wind. If every house in the developed world put a solar panel or two on their roof, we could cut our fossil fuel use in half. Throw in some wind turbines to finish the job, everyone buy Chevy Volts and BAM! No more dependance on fossil fuels. | Having said that though, I will be one of the few people trumpeting $200 oil because, living in western Canada, oil powers the economy and pays my salary. PS: The price of gas here is about US$5.00 per gallon. [Edited: 16:35 - CanadianViking - PS]  Cumberland Sausage Kim Buckley and Richard Baxter Post Count: 13 Msg: #14 8 days ago, May 8th 2008 | >If every house in the developed world put a solar panel or two on their roof, we could cut our fossil fuel use in half. | Sadly, I don't think that is the case, although I'm no expert and am just going from other people's analysis. Obviously solar panels will help a little but local wind turbines are relatively unfeasible at the moment for most households. Although related to climate change rather than peak oil, George Monbiot's book "Heat" covers the alternatives in a significant amount of detail. It is rather depressing but there appears to be some potential for positives. He describes the introduction of long distance direct current electricity cables that have much lower loss than existing ones. This reach means solar panels in the Sahara could be powering Northern Europe, and offshore wind farms (for example) can be further offshore than previously. Similarly he blasts the British Government for spending billions in adding extra lanes to motorways that will immediately fill up with cars and remain clogged and frustrating to use. He describes an integrated public transport system that would actually cost very little at all and dramatically reduce both oil usage and greenhouse gases. From my own perspective driving anywhere in England during the week is a nightmare and such a vision seems a really positive thing in that it could actually improve the quality of experience of many regular travellers irrespective of the environmental benefits. Interestingly it seems much of continental Europe already have versions of such systems, although currently without sufficient capacity to cope with all the car users who would need to switch. Nonetheless the existing systems work really well - it's a very rare occasion when I need to rent a car for a business trip to Europe and almost as rare when the only feasible way to get to someone's office is to use a taxi. Alas, Monbiot draws a blank when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from flying. Dirigibles anyone? http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/05/06/travelling-light/  newplacestogo Gary Bowman Post Count: 36 Msg: #15 7 days ago, May 9th 2008 | While I was in Ecuador (observed mostly in Quito, but other cities as well), gas was running about $1.50/gallon. Yes, it was per gallon, not liter. It is an idiosyncrasy of the country that they use metric for everything else but gallons for gasoline. To what extent gas is relatively cheap there because 1) they are an oil producer 2) they don't tax gasoline to any noticeable degree, or 3) because the price is subsidized by the government (hence, "stealing from Peter to pay Paul"), I do not know. I just know it was definitely on the cheaper side. | Number of Users: 9 | Number of Posts: 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
