According to the RAC it was earlier than 2010. But then I don’t get a lifetime of medical debt if I get injured so at least at have that going for us. Currently.
FWIW, I learned to drive when it was ~$0.95/gal, and lived in the UK ~'05, so I feel keenly that a fairer comparison might be each region’s % of prol take-home avg that’s leeched by fuel costs. Is there an acronym for that?
Let’s say that these two nations’ Unit Price and MPG/KPL avgs are:
US: $4.32/g | 26 mpg
UK: £1.59/L | 36 kpl
Also, the nat’l avgs of “median wage worker” incomes are:
US: $50,153 (£37,276.47)
UK: £32,236 ($43,369.83)
The fuel cost/yr as % of gross earnings, and minutes-of-work per fill unit would look like:
US: 2.12% | 7.4 mins/g (1.95/L) up 28% since 2019
UK: 1.01% | 4.5 mins/L (17.2/g) down 7% since 2019 (income rose 31%)
Now, for some of us, the slice off the year’s top is image enough, but that "minutes of work per gallon/liter* punches low. 🤌🏼
If you find yourself with a surplus of joy and need it gone, run your own numbers for minutes per gallon/liter * (2*commute fuel usage) = minutes paid to earn the rest. 😅
Never really bothered to do the conversions but now I’ve just realised how cheap gasoline was in the US.
The cheapest I remember seeing pump prices in the uk was in late 90s where it was £0.65/L, which would make it around £2.46/gallon and therefore $4.15/gallon given the apparent exchange rate at the time.
In the late 90s (or maybe 2000) in the US Midwest, I remember paying $0.79 a gallon, or $0.21/L. With the exchange rate then, it works out to £0.13/L. So yeah, it was cheap. I filled my 15 gallon tank for the cost of 2 hours at my just above minimum wage job.
$5 per US gallon would be 98p (GBP) per litre. I don’t think fuel has been that cheap here in the last 10 years.
According to the RAC it was earlier than 2010. But then I don’t get a lifetime of medical debt if I get injured so at least at have that going for us. Currently.
I think I ended up on the same chart - link for future people: https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
I am one of the future people and appreciate the kink
Not that kind of pump.
I ran a pump and dump scheme with your mother last night, Trebek.
FWIW, I learned to drive when it was ~$0.95/gal, and lived in the UK ~'05, so I feel keenly that a fairer comparison might be each region’s % of prol take-home avg that’s leeched by fuel costs. Is there an acronym for that?
Let’s say that these two nations’ Unit Price and MPG/KPL avgs are:
Also, the nat’l avgs of “median wage worker” incomes are:
The fuel cost/yr as % of gross earnings, and minutes-of-work per fill unit would look like:
Now, for some of us, the slice off the year’s top is image enough, but that "minutes of work per gallon/liter* punches low. 🤌🏼
If you find yourself with a surplus of joy and need it gone, run your own numbers for minutes per gallon/liter * (2*commute fuel usage) = minutes paid to earn the rest. 😅
Never really bothered to do the conversions but now I’ve just realised how cheap gasoline was in the US. The cheapest I remember seeing pump prices in the uk was in late 90s where it was £0.65/L, which would make it around £2.46/gallon and therefore $4.15/gallon given the apparent exchange rate at the time.
In the late 90s (or maybe 2000) in the US Midwest, I remember paying $0.79 a gallon, or $0.21/L. With the exchange rate then, it works out to £0.13/L. So yeah, it was cheap. I filled my 15 gallon tank for the cost of 2 hours at my just above minimum wage job.
I recently bought petrol at $1.49AUD/L, which is roughly 75p and easily the cheapest I’ve bought it since the 90s.
Buy all your gas from Russia
Get into a proxy war with Russia
Blow up the pipeline they use to sell you their oil
???
Reform UK wins the next election