Around here it was like $2.17 for Regular last time I filled up. And upwards of $2.37 or so for Premium.

However I was just at the beach (NJ) this past weekend and took these photos while on the way there.

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On the way home we paid $1.95 for Regular.

Im around $2.10 or so here it keeps dropping Daily.

84.9p/ltr for 95RON.

That's about $6/US Gallon.

It's cheap here in Edinburgh though because we're near the huge petro-chemical plants in Grangemouth.

you put reg in the volvo?..........im runnin 93 octane [only thing that touches this car] just paid 2.24 here in NC........home of the NC Cr3w!

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you put reg in the volvo?..........im runnin 93 octane [only thing that touches this car] just paid 2.24 here in NC........home of the NC Cr3w!


Yeah we put Reg in our Volvo's. Until the price of premium comes down to a nice price I wont put it in my car.

Yah I put premium in my s80, just cause its the turbo lol, Its down to $2.49 for premium, and $2.19 for regular. Thats in Massachusetts. Also I guess I hear the want to increase it back up by 10 cents more.

Not sure what octane US reg is but here it's 91 and my car runs like a complete dog on it (850 T5), I always use "Premium" which is 95RON unless I can't get hold of it.

"Regular" is uncommon nowadays in the UK, it's usually "Premium" and "Super" (97->99RON) unleaded that's available here.

I find that super unleaded makes no difference so I don't use it.

At present in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (90,000 population) it is possible to purchase unleaded at 101.9 cents/litre or $AU 4.58/imperial gallon.

Using the current exchange rate of $AU1 = 39.4 pence (UK).
For Britons, this equates to fuel costing about GBP 1.80/gallon in Australia.

Using the current exchange rate of $AU1 = 75 cents (USA).
For Americans, this equates to fuel costing about $USA 3.38/imperial gallon.

Cost/American gallon
$AU 3.65 ($USA 2.70)

So it seems fuel is marginally cheaper in America when compared to Australia and much dearer in the U.K compared to Australia.

Found this thread rather late but in the UK we are now paying between £3.80 and £4.08 per gallon - $6 +. About 62% goes to the government as tax. The basic fuel cost is taxed with a fuel tax and then our beloved Chancellor of the Exchequer also adds Value Added Tax (similar to US sales tax). We actually pay a tax on the fuel tax!!

A friend of mine owns a haulage business in Dover. Every Sunday morning he sends at least 5 of his trucks across the English Channel to refuel in France. They then return to the UK to work. Even with the cost of the ferry he saves a packet on his fuel bill.

octane shmoctane...87 in both my 240 AND the squirle trap baby! And we're paying $2.30 for it in Minnesota at the moment. Our good old american engines get drunk on the rich stuff yall got across the pond. Seriously though, when you get above 97/98 octane there really is no difference in the performance or upkeep (other than the placebo effect....) of your engine. The only noticable difference it makes is in emissions....which is why it exists in the first place. Octane produces less "undesirable" compounds than Heptane does....which acount for the other 2 or 3 digits in an otherwise 100% world. (thankyou Organic Chemistry.....stupid 8 am class). I don't get why people swear by 99 Octane, even from an environmentalist point of view....I mean, 23 cents a week for 21 weeks buys lunch my friends...lmao.

I didn't mention octane. My rich compatriots may use 97 - 99 but my car runs quite happily, and economically on 91, the lowest available in the UK, and that was the price I quoted. Go for the "Super" and expect to pay GBP4.50 per gallon. However, the fuel companies tell us that by paying that we can get an extra 28 miles per tankful. Big deal, we are all laughing to the bank!

The point I was trying to make is the obscene amount of tax, plus tax on the tax, we have to pay. Reduce that to a reasonable level and we would probably pay about the same as you.

my mistake....that wasn't in reply to your post Billofdurham...I hit the wrong reply button.

On your post though that is rediculous. I can't believe they found a way to justify taxing a tax.....by definition alone isn't that a double negative? lol...

in south texas prices are right at $2/gallon for 87 and about $2.3 for 93

Sydney, Australia ...About $1.10-$1.20 litre.

v70 2.4t

I think they are starting to come back up! lol.......kinda interesting they are going up in price when the price per barrel of oil is going down ... hmmmm lol

its around 2.15 here for low grade, i believe.

$3.70 for 93. Michigan's taxes are the worst in the country, remember our economy is far below the US average. Can't wait to get the fok out of this state.

Nick