[user104658]

Originally Posted by lostalex

i remember paying 50 cents for a soda out of a vending machine. I remember paying under a dollar for a gallon of gas. Inflation is crazy...

Quit whining Alex - you can still get a gallon of the stuff for under $3 if you shop around. In the UK a gallon of unleaded is (in US dollars) $7 - 8 and has been over $9...

That's not inflation, that's the US's history of massively subsidising oil product prices which is starting to lessen. Your gas was artificially cheap, in the same way that our cows milk is...

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Quit whining Alex - you can still get a gallon of the stuff for under $3 if you shop around. In the UK a gallon of unleaded is (in US dollars) $7 - 8 and has been over $9...

That's not inflation, that's the US's history of massively subsidising oil product prices which is starting to lessen. Your gas was artificially cheap, in the same way that our cows milk is...

well it was much more expensive a few years ago...it's actually come down in the past year, significantly. Also the US should have cheaper gasoline, because we have all the refineries. even though other countries have plenty of crude oil, the US has lots of refineries, so it makes sense that we can get it for cheaper because there's less transportation required for the final product. Canada has a huge amount of oil, but they have no refineries.

also because of fracking, and natural gas being more available, people don't have to use oil for that anymore. so there is much more crude oil on the market, and much more natural gas on the market.

and i'm not whining! i don't even have a car! so i don't care much about gasoline prices. I care more about parking prices, because with my friends i always pay parking costs, since they are driving, and parking costs are outrageous! I've paid 15 dollars for just 2 hours of parking!

[user104658]

Originally Posted by lostalex

well it was much more expensive a few years ago...it's actually come down in the past year, significantly. Also the US should have cheaper gasoline, because we have all the refineries. even though other countries have plenty of crude oil, the US has lots of refineries, so it makes sense that we can get it for cheaper because there's less transportation required for the final product. Canada has a huge amount of oil, but they have no refineries.

also because of fracking, and natural gas being more available, people don't have to use oil for that anymore. so there is much more crude oil on the market, and much more natural gas on the market.

and i'm not whining! i don't even have a car! so i don't care much about gasoline prices. I care more about parking prices, because with my friends i always pay parking costs, since they are driving, and parking costs are outrageous! I've paid 15 dollars for just 2 hours of parking!

Yeah me either to be fair, wife is learning because there's only one bus every two hours from the tiny village I live in. I'd pay £10+ a litre, merrily, just to have a car at this point to be honest.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yeah me either to be fair, wife is learning because there's only one bus every two hours from the tiny village I live in. I'd pay £10+ a litre, merrily, just to have a car at this point to be honest.

oh yea, that's sucks to be out in the country with no reliable transportation. I live in a major city and we have good bus service, but even that is a pain in the ass, and i hate riding the bus, mostly because of the crazy idiots that ride it too.

I will tell you though, UBER is amazing. SO many people are against Uber for many reasons, and i can sympathize, but i have to be honest, having Uber and Lyft has made life so much easier for me. I love it. I hate the fact that the big Taxi monopolies are trying to crush Uber.