Yea, "cheap gas"

temccarthy1 wrote:

Reisender wrote:

temccarthy1 wrote:

Reisender wrote:

temccarthy1 wrote:
After spending a month in Canada this fall pulling my TT for 2000 miles and getting 9.5 MPG,I will never complain about prices of gas in NJ again since I averaged 1.29-1.35 per liter of regular gas in Canada which amounts to about $5 a US gallon! I hit new records in my Expedition for cost of a fill up-- $120- $127 each fill up!
Appreciate the fact that our gas prices in the US average HALF of Canada's per gallon!

Nope. Canada has its own currency. You converted litres to gallons but forgot to do the currency conversion.

1.29 per litre is 3.68 USD per US gallon.

In our hometown gas is 1.22 or about 3.48 USD per US gallon.

In our Old hometown (in ALberta) its around 99 cents per litre. or about 2.82 USD per US gallon.

Cheers

My point is I feel sorry for Canadians paying the equivalent of DOUBLE for their gas compared to average price in the US! a Canadian citizen with Canadian wages doesn't benefit from the 25% reduced value of Canadian $ compared to US $. the same goes for Europe. We complain about gas prices but have some of the lowest prices in the World1

Nope. Doesn't work like that. Canadians get paid in Canadian dollars. Its not all referenced to the American dollar. Doesn't make sense. Different society and culture and political and social support system. Not going to get into which one is better or worse as this is not the forum for that but comparing prices between countries with different currencies is like comparing apples and oranges. Makes no sense.

OK, forget exchange rates...So what does it cost you Canadian to fill your tank?.. lets say 25 gal or 96.875 L? It will cost me about $55 to fill mine with regular at current 2.19 a gal. I am pretty sure it will cost you a lot more! And that was my point in the first place! We have it good on gas in the US compared to Canada or especially Europe!

Gas where I live costs roughly what it costs in California if I do the conversion to US dollars. We are average priced. It is cheaper one province over. So yes where I live it is probably 30 percent more than where you live but about the same as other parts of your country. I'm not sure this is what you are getting at.

Re Europe. We spend lots of time there. Yes fuel is more expensive..mostly because of tax.but again, different society, culture, government and social programs. It also has considerably better infrastructure, transportation, security, etc. Again, one is not better than the other, just what the people choose. Some countries choose low taxes and low gas prices and others choose health care for everyone, security, quality of life etc. Everything costs money, people in different countries choose to spend it on different things. Its what makes the world interesting. No need to feel sorry for us.