I filled up my gas tank for $24

[Lady Fury]

I got gas for $2.05 a gallon today. It felt so good to be able to fill my car's gas tank up until the nozzle clicked off. :D

[Pigs in Space]

You sicken me.

[Lady Fury]

You sicken me.

Cool! Now I have 2 things to smile about.

[AZRogue]

Wow, LF, gas is pretty cheap where you live. I'm still scowling at $2.85 a gallon. It's not bad, though--much better than a couple of months ago.

[Lady Fury]

Wow, LF, gas is pretty cheap where you live. I'm still scowling at $2.85 a gallon. It's not bad, though--much better than a couple of months ago.

It started out at $2.65 a gallon then I had .60cents off a gallon because I had gas points from buying food at Safeway's and using their gas station. Generally I only have about .30cents saved up before I need to fuel up again but for some reason I didn't need gas any sooner. I have a 98 Chevy Cavalier and it gets really good gas mileage. My mini van isn't good on gas which sucks because it's the only vehicle that fits the whole family, car seats and all.

[Schizm]

It's down to 2.53 at the gas station I frequen in ABQ, but I've personally seen it as low as 2.49. I'm fairly sure it's down in the 2.30s somewhere in town, but tis not worth the waste of gas that would be out of my way to find that price.

[Dawnstar]

The other day i saw it for 2.25 a gallon. It was nice to see that instead of 3.99.

[The Winslow]

A full refill would cost me around 50€...

[Edena_of_Neith]

Winslow, what is the cost of gasoline (per gallon) in France, currently?

(I do not know the litre/gallon conversion equation. Sorry. :( )

Here in the United States, gasoline was up to $4.09 to $4.59 per gallon, depending on location.
Now, it has fallen back to $2.39 to $2.89, depending on location.

(But remember, there is no mass transit here, unlike in France. And people generally live far from their places of employment, again unlike in France.)

[Limper]

Its nice not to have to spend so damn much on gas... however if it keep dropping the momentum to do something about oil dependancy will once again fade away.

[The Winslow]

Winslow, what is the cost of gasoline (per gallon) in France, currently?

No idea how much a gallon is, sorry.
We've got three main types of fuel: SP95, SP98, and diesel. The first two are unleaded gas (SP: sans plomb) with an octane index of 95 and 98 respectively. Because diesel is taxed less, it costs less than SP, despite being more expensive to produce. Costs are roughly around 1.30 €/l for diesel, 1.50 €/l for SP95 and 1.55 €/l for SP98. As you know, I do not reside in France currently so those are just rough approximations. My car can use either SP95 or SP98 and its tank has a capacity of a bit less than 40 litres if I'm not mistaken; but of course I refill it when the gauge's red led light up, not when the engine sputters and dies because of emptiness, so a full refill is not a total refill.

http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm

There's three different kinds of gallons? When will you US guys grow up and go metric? I mean, seriously, what the fuck?

[Edena_of_Neith]

The United States will probably never go metric.
Americans are fiercely pro-the English System of weighs and measurements.

Think of it as a variation on our very language. We'd as soon change our language, than give up the English System. Americans are that adamant (I know a lot of metric, but not all of the metric system. Most Americans won't touch it with a 10 foot pole.)

I did not know you were outside of France. You are still in Great Britain?

EDIT: Imagine the French taking up Continuous Tenses. They won't do that (obviously ... why would they? In French, Continuous Tenses are patently ridiculous.) That, would be about the equivalent of the United States going metric. My fellow Americans simply will not do it. Americans see metric as patently absurd, patently ridiculous (I don't, but they do.)

Or imagine going to the sixty-nine, seventy, seventy one ... eighty, eighty one ... ninty, ninty-one ... instead of sixty-ten, sixty-eleven ... four twenty, four twenty one, four twenty ten, four twenty eleven.
This is perfectly normal in French, and nobody thinks anything of it. But nobody in the United States would count that way. Nobody in France would count our way.
The English system, is viewed with the same level of ... how to say this? ... 'this is how it is, take it or leave it.'

In short, while in America, do as the Americans do. (Americans are extremely stubborn, my friend. Some of them would rip metric signs down off the very gas station poles, should they attempt to put them up. They are that adamant about the English System of weights and measures. I kid you not.)

[Edena_of_Neith]

When will you US guys grow up and go metric? I mean, seriously, what the fuck?

As your long-time friend (a very good friend, always a friend) I've got to tell you what your statement above means, to most Americans. I have to. It's for your protection, should you ever visit here.
Imagine that someone came online, and said:

When will you French guys grow up and use Continuous Tenses? I mean, seriously, what the fuck?

Quite a shock, no? I do not mean any offense by that statement. I do not mean to offend.

And I understand metric, and am willing to learn it (I know much of it.)
You will find sympathy and support on Kay for metric.

But ...

In most of America, assume you are dealing with Rush Limbaugh Americans.
And they are militant, militantly pro-English System, militantly pro - a lot of un-French things (for example, they are militantly pro-gun.)
They are growing MORE militant, too, not less militant.

So, if you go to the appropriate messageboards, and say what you said above ... flamewar is only the start of it ... gods ... if only you knew how bad the reaction would be.

This is why I am so very adamant about learning French *your* way. No Anglicizing it. No ... 'but it should be this way' or 'that's not reasonable' bs out of me.
When learning French, do as the French! Period. If you don't like it ... don't learn French! But do not try to learn French, and think you can get away with English. (lol ...)

So trust me when I say ... if you are visiting America, learn the English System. Americans can be a ... they won't know anything about metric, at best, or tell you where to go, more likely. They are really that militant. I'm not kidding. (It's ridiculous, obviously. Patently ridiculous. But again, what can I say? Or do? They'd shoot Superman himself, if he advocated going metric ... oh wait, they already killed him, lol ...)

EDIT: The fact that the whole rest of the world uses metric, does not make Americans more inclined to learn metric. It makes Americans more MILITANT about NOT learning it. Again, I have no words ... things are just ... like that ... lol ... what can one do?

[Edena_of_Neith]

(Ok, everyone can let me have it, now ...)

[Brynja]

So when are you moving to France Edena?

[Dr_Avalanche]

(Ok, everyone can let me have it, now ...)

...a gallon is about $7 here. I filled up the tank of my van today for $171.

[The Winslow]

I did not know you were outside of France. You are still in Great Britain?

Yes. And, guess what? They have (mostly) converted to the metric system here! Sure, miles and a few other units are still used here and there but I'd bet that 50 years from now they won't be. And they'll still speak English (while I'm not sure it'll be true of the USA...). :lol: