http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040603/17/ev425.html ...As prices at garages in Scotland reached as high as 98.9p a litre... Let's see, a little under 4 liters to the gallon, a little under 2 dollars to the pound... ...about $7.00 /gallon? I get a little over 20 mpg I think, short little roundtrip Austin/Houston 360 miles... 18 gallons ... $125! yikes. That would cut down on travel. I'm glad that we already made the roadtrip from London to Scotland.
They are smart...if we want to increase mass transit and lower polution in the States, put an outrageous tax on gas.
Dang, that really puts it in perspective. I can't believe it costs $125 for a trip to Austin. Unbelievable. But at least the oil companies are reporting record profits.
Absolutely. A gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of gas. Of course, our economy isn't primed with milk, either.
Problem is, it starts with city planning. Houston ain't been planned, at all. Only dense, centralized populations can sustain mass transit.
Wow. Not only would this destroy the airline industry, it would cripple any business that depended on deliveries or machinery. Talk about a good way to throw the economy in the toilet...tax the heck out of the one thing that everything in the economy needs.
Therein lies your problem. Cars over here are a lot more fuel efficient, with smaller engines. I get just under 40mpg from my car (a 2003 Mazda 323 GXi 1.6).
You know what else would destroy the airline industry? Not having a reliable fuel source in a 100 years. In an increasingly unstable world a concerted effort to develop alternative renewable energy sources to oil is self-evident.
agreed..but can we look for and develop those alternative energy sources without completely tanking our economy in the meantime, please? thanks!
Cheap gas == inexpensive goods. I like that. However, I've heard the counter-argument made that instead of importing stuff from halfway around the world maybe increased gas prices would make it more cost-effective to keep jobs in America and ship from within the country.
Really necessary with the speed limits you have over there, I'm sure. And it uses less of one of the world's scarcest natural resources.
