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Originally Posted by emjay
1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres
The Brits currently pay about £1.16 ($2.26) per litre, so $8.54 per gallon 
So don't complain too much! |
Apples and oranges. Americans have to drive further. We don't have much public transportation. NONE in my area.
Also you are doing the math wrong. A person in the UK is paying 4.39 Euros per gallon of gas. A person in the US is paying about $4 for a gallon of gas. If the UK person was making 40,000 euros and the US person was making $40,000 when the dollar and euro were worth the same the UK person is now making the equivalent of $64,000 a year. So the difference isn't nearly as bad as you are making it out to be.
Also there is the cost of transporting goods. It doesn't take much to transport food from one end of the UK to the other as compared to transporting goods from one end of the US to the other. Hell it's only 2081 miles to go from Lisbon to Helsinki. Oslo to Athens is only 1620 miles. Seattle to Miami 2719 miles, NY to LA 2444 miles.