[ale] unusual global warming experiment

[drifter]

Each of us is partially correct.  It was two years ago that petrol
in Merry Olde England was 1.99 (pounds) a liter.  In 2009 it was
running about .99 a liter.  I don't know where your data came from
that the price peaked at about .90 a liter, but I never saw 
petrol priced that low while I was there.  The one time I rented a
car petrol ran from .99 to 1.05 a liter, depending on how far I was from
a metropolitan area.
As to exchange rate, there is the published exchange rate that works
only between banks and other LARGE financial institutions and the
exchange rate that actually exists on the street when you show up to
get some cash exchanged -- or use your credit card to do it for you at
the ATM.  That rate last summer was pretty consistently $1.62 for one
Pound Sterling on the street and about $1.75 at the ATM >before<
Wachovia added in its own fees.  We had budgeted based on the lower
figure that was being published in the newspaper day after day.
Oops!

So a gallon (US) of petrol in southeastern England in the summer of 2009
cost about $6.07 (using the $1.62 figure)

What I want is for someone to explain to me why the entire motorsport
industry in the U.K., including the manufacturers, insists on publishing
fuel usage figures in miles per gallon, when petrol is ONLY sold in
liters!

For the record, a US (liquid) gallon is 3.7854 liters 
and a                     UK (liquid) gallon is  4.546  liters


Sean

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On Thursday 11 February 2010 14:06:54 Jim Lynch wrote:
> drifter wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> >
> > Also remember that only in this country are 3 liter and larger engines
> > the norm for cars. Anything larger than 2.5 liters is considered a
> > LARGE engine everywhere else. And taxed accordingly. Gas taxes
> > are another reason that small cars are the norm for much of the
> > industrialized world; in England last summer gas was selling for
> > roughly $3.20 a liter, given the then current exchange rate.
> >
> > Sean
> 
> I'm going to have to take exception here.  Last year the price of petrol
> in the UK peaked at about 90p per liter.  The exchange rate was in the
> neighborhood of $1.50/£.  That works out to $1.35 per liter, which is
> just over $5 per gallon.
> (http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html) I visited other sites
> with similar data.  That one just has the best presentation.
> 
> Jim.
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