What are your gas prices today?

Unleaded petrol has started to drop in price, finally! And, for once, diesel is more expensive, even if by only a penny. So yeah, a litre of unleaded petrol costs 94.9p at the local station ($1.88). Bear in mind this is per litre, not gallon. Per gallon it's £3.59 ($7.12).

Why do you guys have to pay so much again?

Because we have the great fortune of not being oil-rich.

94.9p/l is the cheapest locally. The most expensive is 99.9p - £3.78 for a gallon - $7.50! We pay three times as much as you... thank God I don't have my own car.

Yeah, but you guys don't have to drive around as much as we do. The average working american travels 70 miles a day.

You'd be surprised at how much people do actually have to drive around.

It used to be the case that all the teachers at my primary school were local and lived in the village or nearest town... now they all live in the big cities. All of them will drive between twenty and forty miles to get to the school, and the same distance back. The same is true for about half of the teachers at the Grammar School.

Then there are all the people who live locally and work in one of the big cities - the nearest is thrity miles away. Some people could drive 100 miles in a day, simply to go to work.

And this is just a minute part of the country. Whilst it may not be the same down South, where people will either live in the city or commute on trains, around the Midlands, the North, and in Scotland, it's very rural, so people will have to travel a long way to get to work. The amount of money they spend on petrol per week is stupidly high.

$2.79 in Indianapolis, IN.

$2.68 down the street. I paid 2.72 two days ago

$6.15 / gallon of unleaded gas over here. ($1.62 / liter)

Where are you at again, chruser?

$2.75 - Pittsburgh

Where are you at again, chruser?

Someplace in Sweden. I'm surprised that gas prices are higher in the U.K. It seems like they would be a larger importer than Sweden.