why is diesel more expensive than petrol in the uk whereas it is cheaper than petrol in France?
604001
good question. why does it bounce above and below regular in the usa? not just by pennies, but by a lot.
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Propane is cleaner, Oil is cheaper but not in the long run\npropane is easier to store. burns hotter so it heats faster.\ngo with Propane
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Mate this question is very open ended.\nBig fast powerful?\nSmall slow economical"\nPetrol?\nDiesel?\nSingle?\nTwin?\n\nI recently brought a 12m (38') Cougarcat from Bermagui (Southern NSW Coast) to Brisbane a distance of 600 NM. The vessel was powered by two TAMD63 6.3 Litre turbo Volvo Diesels. The vessel burned about 80 litres per hour. Used 2700 litres of fuel. At an average price of $1.65 per litre for diesel, it cost $4400 in fuel to do the trip.\n\nThis was a big relatively fast charter boat. Even at 29' There is a huge difference in fuel burn between a two cylinder diesel in a sail boat using 4 litres per hour and two petrol mercruisers using 120 litres per hour. So it is impossible to answer your question at all until you have some better data.\n\nOne thing to think about would be a Yacht. I must stress though, make sure you learn a lot about sailing both in a theoretical and practical sense before undertaking a journey of this magnitude. I have been driving rescue boats for almost 10 years, and I am still not ready to take on a journey like that one.
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The price goes up when demand outpaces the supply of gasoline.  and that would mean if we as Americans drove smaller cars than suvs we would have less demand.  Also we need a new fuel source other than petroleum.
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They are basically the same price (4 quarts = 1 gallon). Any price variation from there would have to do with the process it takes to refine gasoline. Although they are both petroleum products, they are not manufactured in the same way.
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A gallon of gas in Brazil is about 4$.  It's Venezuela that's the cheap one because the government heavily subsizdizes gas there.  The price is a mere 15 cents or around there.
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Good question.  I've been wondering the same thing.  Fuel prices in Germany stand at over $7 a gallon (depending on the exchange rate and where you go).  Here in Europe, it's outrageous and always has been!\nKabbob, it is a worldwide issue!  I'm thinking the asker of this question has simply been speaking to people who live in Europe.\nThe fact that fuel prices are "pennies" in other countries is only because the cost of living is so low.
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Been out of the industry for a little while now so cant give you precise figures, but what I can tell you is that North Sea crude is pretty much specialised and is virtually all exported.\n\nThe UK exchequer sells our crude for more than we pay to import generally.\n\nIt is not the type of crude which lends itself to petrol production either.\n\nIt was also pretty badly drilled at the time which means that whilst there is actually quite a lot left, most of it will be to difficult and expensive to be extracted, so the supply is diminishing quickly.
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People need to conserve energy, like not drive gas guzzling cars and SUV's.  People in Europe do not drive SUV's for the most part so the "I need the extra room" argument does not actually hold true.  Now days oil is not just gasoline like everyone thinks, oil is a key ingredient in: CD's, computers, deodorant, DVD's, dyes, furniture, paint, shampoo, clothing, toothpaste and on and on.  We went through this in the 1970's and nobody learned the lesson then.  Back then they drove gas guzzling cars the energy crunch hit, people bought small cars.  Prices went back down over time then everyone forgot...  Nobody want to drill offshore California, or the east coast or Alaska, all this would help bring on more production so now we have to buy our oil from overseas in unstable countries.  Lets look at refining, nobody wants a refinery in their back yard so those to have been going overseas, meaning we are at other counties mercy there too.  Oil companies are not to blame, we are.  We need to quit thinking we have a right to cheap energy and that it will always be there.  We need to develop alternative sources of energy.\n\nThis country imports over 50% of it oil from other countries.  They have us by the #@*&'s!\n\nLastly, most of what is in the price of gasoline is tax.  Yes that's right tax you can thank your state and the federal govt.  see http://api-ec.api.org/filelibrary/Gasoline-taxes.
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What scares me worse is that our country seems to be unable and unwilling to do the work needed to find alternatives to oil.  We are unable to change our lifestyle because we seem to feel it is owed to us.  You will not see anyone in Europe driving a Hummer, or any SUV.  They  have always been more conservation minded.
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The best thing to do is not meddle. If price gets high enough, people will be forced to conserve. Prices are usually over $4 per gallon in Europe and over $3 per gallon for most of Latin America. Perhaps prices would be more stable if North America were to stop wasting the world's fuel supply.
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Per a gallon ( 5 litres) thats about £5.02 in $ that is $9 roughly per a gallon...by the way thats in London, U.K...don't think anyone can beat that price\n:P
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Dear Friend,\n\nAmerica, or USA to be more specific? In USA the gasoline is cheaper than South America's countries. We pay around USD 4.5 per 4 liters (97 oct).\n\nI think the solutions is changing to renovable energy such as electricity, hydrogen, butane, etanol, etc.\nGovernment must help to car industrie to change gradually.\n\nRegards,\n\nAlain
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Advantages:\n\nFuel is cheap. Unlike other types of electricity generation only a tiny proportion of the cost of generating nuclear power is in the actual fuel burned. \n\n\nFuel is very easy and cheap to transport. A coal or gas power station will burn tonnes of fuel every day. A nuclear power station will burn only a few grams. Because so little fuel need sot trannsported the amount of auilliary grenhouse gas pollution form transport is almost nil, as opposed to thousands of tonnes a year from coal or gas transport.\n\nSafe. Coal or gas power is a highly dangerous way to generate gas. In the US alone dozens of people are killed each year mining and transporting coal and gas for power generation and hundreds more die as a result of the pollutants these stations produce. If the same amount of power were generated using nuclear stations fewer than 10 people would die. \n\nAccidents in nuclear power generation is also far less likely to result in a loss of life. Chernobyl was the worst accident ever in the history of nuclear power generation and killed less than 50 people. There have been numerus mine accidents in the US that have killed more than 10 people at a time.\n\nUnder safety I will also include the very low levels of radioactivity released. In the US alone around 10 people a years are killed by radioactive materials released by coal power stations. Nobody in the US has ever been killed by radioactive material from nuclear power stations. Fewer than 100 people have been killed by the radioactive material released by nuclear power stations in the last 50 years in the entire world. \n\n\nNon-polluting. Aside from making nuclear power generation very safe the almost total lack of unintentional pollutants is a major environmental bonus for nuclear power. Nuclear power stations contribute just 1/100, 000th of the amount of greenhouse gas as a coal or gas plant generating the same power.\n \nAbundant fuel. The world has about enough liquid rude oil to practically last about another 100 years at current consumption and extraction rates. Coal will see us through another 400 years if we sue it as an oil supplement. We have sufficient fissionable material available to provide 10, 000 years of nuclear power even if we abandon coal and oil altogether and get ALL our energy from nuclear power.\n\n\nDisadvantages\n\nWaste disposal. This is the biggest problem. Nuclear power plants produce radioactive material that takes thousands of years or longer to become safe. Until it does decay to a safe level it has to be stored where it can’t contaminate the water supply or stolen by people who want to use it as a poison. That requires either the construction of expensive containment facilities or the permanent lockdown of decommissioned stations so the material can be stored on site.\n\nStations are relatively expensive to build. Due to pressure from environmental lobby groups nuclear power stations are more heavily regulated than any other industry, far more heavily regulated than coal power stations or even coal mines and far more heavily indicated than the statistical danger warrants. IN addition any proposed nuclear power station will be the target of protests, endless legal challenges and direct acts of sabotage from ‘environmentalists’. Those factors make it far more expensive to build a nuclear power station in the US than to build a coal or gas station.\n\nPortability. Nuclear power requires nuclear reactors, big nuclear reactors. That means they are restricted to use in large ocean going vessels, trains and as stationary electrical generators. You can’t use nuclear power to directly power cars, trucks, and airplanes. That means that nuclear power can never directly replace a large amount of US fossil fuel use. The issue of portability can be offset somewhat by using nuclear electricity to convert plant material or even air and water into petroleum, but doings o is fairly expensive.
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Fuel prices are set by OPEC (price per barrel.)  They are most reasonable in the US because our government subsidizes what we pay.  OPEC sucks, they won't allow any other petrol-bearing nations to offer a lesser fee.  They are too powerful.
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A couple of years ago, all the Amoco stations in my city became British Petroleum, But I don't think they have much to do with Mobil except that they both are making us take it in our arses with the gas prices. Funny how the oil industry has claimed the highest earnings ever in history last year, yet they "claim" that they are only making a small profit. Hmm...
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What like gas and petrol you mean?  Not sure, maybe because one of the words already has a different meaning (in Britian gas is a fuel used for heating systems and cooking, petrol is a liquid that vehicles run on.\n\nI find this fascinating too.