Whats the most you would pay for a gallon of petrol ?

[paulqv]

I am a bit old fashioned and still calculate fuel consumption in MPG and fuel in £ per gallon. We are now paying about £5.55 a gallon for fuel.
I was reading the press specuating about oil prices going over $100 per gallon again. I started wondering: Whats the most I would pay for a gallon of fuel for normal use before resorting to some other non car alternative? I apprciate that public trasnport costs will rise with fuel prices narrowing the differential.
Because of the costs was looking for a 50+mpg motorway cruiser as in something that can travel at 70-80mph and return 50+mpg in 'normal' useage and not be so high geared or lethargic that it a menace to other traffic!
However for my round trip from Glasgow to London 800miles approx at 50mpg is about £90 for fuel only and the train is about £100.
If fuel goes to say £10 per gallon or £2.25 per litre then gets a lot dearer.
Weirdly I am developing an interst in electric and hybrid cars! Where are the keys to the QV, need to shake myself out of this and remember why I like petrol cars! lol
Paul

[paulqv]

PS
In the USA today the average price for superunleaded is approx £2.50 per UK gallon
Wonder what would happen if they had to pay our prices! Riots? Change of government? PEOPLE GETTING RID OF LARGE SUV'S!!!!!

[Skylinecrazy]

FFS stop the petrol price threads already. The counties in fk loads of debt and there's nout you can do about it. Constant threads on the subject however, have been done to death.

[HellDiver]

Current UK average is 129.9p, which is £5.89 a gallon.

[aw51 121565]

Oil prices are costed per barrel (not gallon), which is about 30 gallons of crude oil.

[HellDiver]

aw51 121565 said:

Oil prices are costed per barrel (not gallon), which is about 30 gallons of crude oil.

And? Odd statement you made.

Potatoes are priced by tonne by farmers. They're priced by kilo in the supermarket.

[Somnophore]

Because, if you read, the OP has put that oil may reach $100 per gallon, wheras they should
mean per barrel.

[cheadle hulme]

I stupidly paid £13 per litre for Pilsner Urquell in a Manchester bar a few weeks ago. £2.25/litre is cheap in comparison.

(says the guy who cycles 20 miles to work!)

[JK55]

Whatever the guy behind the counter says it is, in fact, usually, he doesn't. I just pop my Mastercard in, put in the pin, wait a few moments and that is the end of it.

I'm used to being ripped off by the government. Why would this type of rip off bother me more than any other?

[dave9]

whatever they charged and was the going rate. right now, £60 per gallon. I'd just do without other things and a 60 mpg car still means it would cost £1 per mile which is an awful lot but would still only cost say a fiver to go to the gym, a couple of quid to the supermarket, a couple of quid to the pub etc so no big deal for me.

we'd all pay whatever the going rate was which is why they hike it to whatever they like