Any country pay more for petrol than UK?

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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:15
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - Enoughalready
I was looking at this:

tinyurl.com/3yjk7x

...and wondered if any other country pays more than the UK for petrol. Given that even this example is actually wrong as a poster points out - we even pay more than is shown.
Surely Iceland or somewhere must be paying more than our $7+ USD per gallon?

However, taxing us so heavily does indeed work to reduce our emissions...can you imagine what vehicles we would be driving if we only paid $0.17 USD per gallon?


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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:25
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - Brian Tryzers
Don't ignore the effect of exchange rates. Anything will look expensive at the moment if you convert it into USD first.
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:35
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - OldHand
Netherlands and Germany both currently around £1.07 a gallon for super unleaded and £1.01 for 95 ron.

Diesel in France and Netherlands is about 70p/ltr though.
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:39
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - Pugugly {P}
£1.07 a gallon ????

I'm off there now.


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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:39
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - movilogo
Don't just compare absolute price. In many developing countries, people pay much more than us when you consider purchasing power parity!
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:41
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - OldHand
lol showing my age!!! I meant per litre.
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 12:45
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - Altea Ego
Zimbabwe pays much more

Its currently Z$350000000 a litre.

No wait thats now Z$40000000.

Hold on

Now Z$450000000
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 15:24
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - johncyprus
The Turks pay a lot more than us. Have just returned from Turgetreis near Bodrum and both petrol and diesel were about 3 Lira, at £1 = 2.6 Lira a liter is about £1.16.
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 16:02
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - local yokel
Diesel in France and Netherlands is ?1.06-?1.15, which at ?1.43:£1 is 77p/litre if it's ?1.10/l. Still 20p/l cheaper than UK.
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 16:08
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - OldHand
You can buy diesel at ?1/ltr in Netherland and at ?1.43 to the pound you're either getting ripped off, not changing enough money or buying at the wrong time!
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 18:45
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - PhilW
A couple of useful links for petrol prices
www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/

And if you are going to France - the price at every petrol station
www.zagaz.com/index.php
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 19:49
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - Old Navy
I was in recently in Australia during a considerable fuel price hike. The locals were severely unimpressed (they hate their polititons with a passion). Truck and taxi drivers were threatening strikes and there was much grumbling about knock on effects. When I explained that they were only paying about half the UK price even after their price hike the response was, "You are paying for free medical care, a welfare state and Blair's wars every time you fill up your car! Diesel is 20p a litre in Egypt, pretty low grade judging by the smoke.
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Wed 27 Jun 2007 20:05
Any country pay more for petrol than UK? - Sprice
Remember watching one of Clarkson's round the world car programmes a few years back and one week he was in Iceland where he mentioned that petrol was £5 a gallon (it was on in the mid-late 90s).
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