In England is gas sold by the gallon? And what is the average cost of gasoline. Should we in the USA complain?

Question

Gas in the US is approximately 2.60 a gallon. What is it in England. Should we be complaining?

Answer 1

Remember than a UK gallon is larger than a US gallon.

But other than that it is a myth that people in the UK have been fined for not selling in metric, what they were actually fined for was using scales that weren't approved (and which is actually a serious problem since it means that a customer can't know whether what they've paid for is what they've got).

Answer 2

In the UK at the moment we've got an odd "dual" system. They have been trying to introduce metric measurements for the past 10 - 30 years, but can't quite get around to banning the "Imperial" system [Gallons/Ounces/Miles, etc,] - so you have the strange situation that most people "think" in old measures and are quite confused over the insistance of the government [through the EU] that things have to be sold and labled in metric. There have been instances of stallholders/shopkeepers being prosecuted for advertising or selling in pounds and ounces instead of grammes and kilos.

Anyway to answer the question! In the UK Gasoline [Petrol] is officially sold in Litres and you have nothing to complain about at all in the US - as the cost of a litre of Gas in the UK is equivilent to around $1.70 - $1.90 in US dollars.

If you work out how many Litres there are in a Gallon - you'll see that we're paying an awful lot more for our Gas.

Answer 3

OK - petrol (gasoline) in the UK is an average of 95p per litre.
There are 3.78 litres in 1 US gallon, so 1 US gallon costs £3.59 at UK prices.
At the present exchange rate of just over $2 to £1 this equates to $7.24

Answer 4

Careful, an imperial gallon is larger than a US gallon so you wouldn't get the answer you wanted.

We buy petrol by the litre, and our current prices are just under £1/litre.

I worked the following out a little while ago now, so it may be a little out of date:

ASSUMING:
Av. UK PETROL PRICE GB£0.945/l
Av. US PETROL PRICE US$3.076/USg
1USg~3.785412l
GB£1~US$1.97520

THEREFORE:
1USg~$0.945*3.785412*1.97520

CONCLUSION:
SO 1US GALLON OF PETROL COSTS ABOUT GB£3.57721434 WHICH IS ROUGHLY US$7.065713764

Answer 5

Hmmmm a gallon here costs just short of £5.00 - which equates to about $10.00. We should be complaining, not you!