?70 to fill up with petrol:

[pkeeney]

here in the USA 3.10 a gallon is the average. I spend $60 a tank at the moment $30 a day.

[Grizz]

yeah but you guys got guns, your politicos are afraid to rise the tax

[pkeeney]

Gas
$30 * 365= 10,950 a year

Insurance
100*12= 1200

Registration

65 year

Tires

800 a year

10,950+1200+65+800=$13,015 usd just to drive a car here in the USA. That not including normal maintenance stuff.

[Grizz]

i worked it out and my closest petrol station would compare at US$7.03 per gallon
i cant compare on other cause i dont know what size car

[smirnoff_rules]

bet the yanks cant believe where paying $11.18 a gallon

[Meat-Head]

rumor going around that states an american gallon - like an americans mouth - is much bigger than uk/eur type

[Grizz]

you need to throttle your local petrol station manager smirnoff, im workin ye out at $7.71

Edit
Im using US gallons lmao @meat

[smirnoff_rules]

1 US gallon = 3.785411784 liters.
1 UK (Imperial) gallon = 4.54609 liters.

[Meat-Head]

1 US gallon = 3.785411784 liters.
1 UK (Imperial) gallon = 4.54609 liters.

Not going to argue,but should that not read

1 UK (Imperial) gallon = 4.54609 litREs

besides, thought american gallon was bigger?

[smirnoff_rules]

l just copy and paste l havnt the answer

To convert British gallons to liters, multiply gallons by 4.54; to convert liters to British gallons, multiply liters by 0.22; hence, 4.54 liters make a British gallon.

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1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.78541178 liters.

1 gallon [US, liquid] = 4.000 US quarts exactly.

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1 gallon [US, liquid] =
0.133681 ft3 and
128.000 fluid ounces and
0.003785 m3 and
3785.411 cm3 and
3785.411 ml

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1 liter = 0.2642 gallons
1 gallon = 3.785 liters
3.78 liters = 1 US Gallon
4.55 litres = 1 British gallon

Well Simply we can say

36 miles per gallon
36*2.2= 79.2km
1gallon = 3.7 lts
79.2km per gallon
i.e. 21.4km per ltrs

Read more: Answers.com - How many liters equal one gallon

[GastonJ]

You also need to factor in the average wage etc in the US compared to the UK. At the end of the day I doubt that the cost of a litre of fuel in the US is really that much cheaper when you compare cost of 1 litre to the average wage in the US and 1 litre in the UK to the average wage in the UK.

It's all relative at the end of the day, the fact is that the UK government taxes all car drivers and like lemmings we all pay, and will continue to no matter how much we moan and jump up and down. No matter how many discussion threads are started.

The last time I recall the UK public refusing to pay and doing something about it was community charge....

[johnboy1974]

the highest diesel prices in the europe and the worst roads too covered in potholes and crumbling.

[gmb45]

pumped dry

Drumming up cash ... where tax goes

MOTORISTS pay for their road use more than twice over in tax to the Government, The Sun can reveal.

Less than half the cash demanded by Whitehall from drivers gets ploughed back into road costs, leaving them subsidising the rest of Britain.

A total of ?30billion is paid annually in fuel and road tax.

But ministers last year spent just ?12billion on the road network, maintenance and off-setting emissions.

The TaxPayers' Alliance statistics add significant weight to The Sun's campaign to win a fair deal for drivers at the pumps.

We are calling on Chancellor George Osborne to freeze fuel duty or bring in a fuel stabiliser, fulfilling the Tories' election pledge.

More than 60,000 had signed our Keep It Down petition last night.

Calls ... George Osborne

Of the ?12.2billion drivers cost the state last year, ?9.1billion went on road-building and maintenance, with the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions at ?3.2billion.

Motorists' ?30.2billion bill was made up by ?24.6billion in fuel duty at pumps and ?5.6billion in Vehicle Excise Duty for tax discs.

That left the total excess paid by road users at ?17.9BILLION.

Director of the TaxPayers' Alliance Matthew Sinclair said: "These figures show that motorists are being unduly punished.

"It's time the Government stopped squeezing ordinary families who have to use their cars."

PM David Cameron has promised the issue of soaring oil prices will be addressed in the March 23 Budget.

And yesterday he revived a Coalition pledge to look at a special discount for truckers at the pumps.
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Drivers pay for roads twice over | The Sun |News|Sun City

[pkeeney]

We are all slaves to money and at the end of the day we have to give it all back to this modernize system.

But look at the bright side we have beer and internet and they have private jets.

[tshirtman]

I wouldn't mind paying the current price for a litre of fuel, if they scrapped road tax,
whether I drive 5000 miles or 50.000 mile I still pay the same amount for road tax, it would be a fairer system, because those that use the roads more will pay more.