Things you never thought you'd say at the pump

[shesulsa]

"$70 on number eleven, please!" :angry:

At least I got change ...

 

[OUMoose]

Is this the point where an Englishman is supposed to poke his head in and say something like "You Yanks don't know you're born!" .

To elaborate somewhat more sensibly, over here in Blighty we pay roughly $2 a litre (1 US gallon = 3.785 litre) and earn roughly half as much (for an equivalent profession) - life is so unfair :cries:.

But your country is only a fraction of the size of ours, so big oil has to make up the lost revenue of poor trucking/transit money somewhere!!


(P.S. that's sarcasm btw. :lol

 

[Sukerkin]

ROFL, Moose :tup:.

The real joke is that the oil companies don't get the cash, the government does, as the majority of the pump price of fuel here comes from taxes/levies.

 

[FearlessFreep]

Is this the point where an Englishman is supposed to poke his head in and say something like "You Yanks don't know you're born!" .

To elaborate somewhat more sensibly, over here in Blighty we pay roughly $2 a litre (1 US gallon = 3.785 litre) and earn roughly half as much (for an equivalent profession) - life is so unfair :cries:.

Keep in mind that I had one job for a year that required a sixty mile drive, one way, to get to and from work every day.

It's all relative

 

[Xue Sheng]

Things I never thought I'd say at the pump

WOW, $3.15 per gallon... that's cheap.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Keep in mind that I had one job for a year that required a sixty mile drive, one way, to get to and from work every day.

It's all relative

Yes, its all relative. Unfortunately, down here we're paying about $1.40 - $1.60 AUS a litre which works out at somewhere between $4.50 and $5.00 US a gallon and we have vast distances to cover to get anywhere. I am very glad I work only ten minutes drive from my house. But if I want to visit my family that's 350km (about 215 miles) to Sydney and back.