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WHAT! $7.57 PER GALLON OF GAS??

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Johnny

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:nonono: Woke up this morning and heard on the radio gasoline is currently $7.57 per gallon in London. Yesterday I overheard it mentioned that gas could reach $5 per gallon in the US before the years over.

How do you think this will affect our Healey driving??

BTW Happy 1/1/11 Day. Looking forward to 11/11/11?
 
I assume this was London, UK, not London, KY or London, OH.

European gas prices are typically twice that of the US, plus or minus a bit. The current, badly skewed exchange rates tend to make it seem even higher than it really is. For example, the dollar is hovering around 1.25 - 1.30 Euro, but the Euro was designed to be similar, in Europe, to a dollar in the US.

So, there isn't much news here. Why would it affect your driving in the US?
 
During the summer, a convenience store down the street sells Sunoco 110 octane "for off road use" at $6.50/gallon.

I'm sure the Healey would like it, but it's the same reason I don't buy myself Johnny Walker Blue Label...
 
Johnny said:
:nonono: Woke up this morning and heard on the radio gasoline is currently $7.57 per gallon in London.

Yesterday I overheard it mentioned that gas could reach $5 per gallon in the US before the years over.--- :yesnod:

How do you think this will affect our Healey driving??

Stay at home and Drive less--- :laugh:

Go back to sleep, it was just a bad dream.

OH!!!____SURE!!!----------Keoke- :nonono:

The Price is at $ 4.00 now and still climbing :laugh:


BTW Happy 1/1/11 Day. Looking forward to 11/11/11?
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The price of 1 litre of Gasoline in the Netherlands is 2,08

A Gallon would be around Us 7,50. But I am confident even when it is US 10 or 15 us a Gallon we will still drive our car as it is a symbol of freedom in a way to transport at what time of the day, which direction alone or with a group etc

But it is a fact, that more and more people will drive a car take for example upcoming markets like China and India and we all take a slice from the same pie and we still think all will remain the same and that it is an endless source.

When they estimate we have oil for the coming 40/50 years it is based on present use. Our Chinese friends have over 1.3 billion citizens and India
only 1.1 billion There comes a point and their economy is still growing read in need of for exampe more oil and steel for their home market. They just quickly learn and step by step they will take advantage of the situation. Building cars themselves initially for a much lower price than people in the US and Europe can produce them ( compare it with the cheap Japanese cars of 40 years ago and the South Korean Hyundau pony of 25 plus years ago. Like the Koreans have taken a large share from the Japanese. The Chinese will take that share sooner or later from the Koreans.

The moral is that we just have to realize that all good things come sooner or later to an end and, that we don't have to take everything for granted

By the way I am looking forward to 11/11/11 as well
 
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-weight: bold">Well said. I suppose I'll just have to drive my AH more because my '96 Jeep Cherokee only gets about 15 mpg.</span></span>
 
hama61 said:
The price of 1 litre of Gasoline in the Netherlands is 2,08

A Gallon would be around Us 7,50. But I am confident even when it is US 10 or 15 us a Gallon we will still drive our car as it is a symbol of freedom in a way to transport at what time of the day, which direction alone or with a group etc

But it is a fact, that more and more people will drive a car take for example upcoming markets like China and India and we all take a slice from the same pie and we still think all will remain the same and that it is an endless source.

When they estimate we have oil for the coming 40/50 years it is based on present use. Our Chinese friends have over 1.3 billion citizens and India
only 1.1 billion There comes a point and their economy is still growing read in need of for exampe more oil and steel for their home market. They just quickly learn and step by step they will take advantage of the situation. Building cars themselves initially for a much lower price than people in the US and Europe can produce them ( compare it with the cheap Japanese cars of 40 years ago and the South Korean Hyundau pony of 25 plus years ago. Like the Koreans have taken a large share from the Japanese. The Chinese will take that share sooner or later from the Koreans.

The moral is that we just have to realize that all good things come sooner or later to an end and, that we don't have to take everything for granted.

:shocked:
---I thought we were going to figure out how to be competitive????

---------------------------------Keoke-- :driving:---------Less

By the way I am looking forward to 11/11/11 as well
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Actually a lot of our friends in Europe have been paying $6-8/gallon for a long time. My Italian friend pays about $100 per fill-up, for a small car. One of my British friends pays even more to fill his 7-series BMW (which he drives very little, for obvious reasons).

As expensive as gas is here, it's worse almost everywhere else (almost). Count your blessings and smile when you pay $3.25/gallon for premium. We'll all likely live long enough to remember 2011, when gas was still cheap.
 
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