[kanaloa]

Yikes. JoAnn I remember that all to well. Do you recall in 2000 when the prices got real bad in the summer? Well that was the one we tromped through your way in our Expedition on our way to Alaska. Yeeaaah we didn't like Canada to much.

HOW MUCH FOR GAS????

[jojo]

It costs me about $33 to fill up my Taurus. It sure makes ya plan your trips around town more carefully.Won't be doing much garage saleing this summer

[kanaloa]

LOL. That's about two tanks of gas for my Malibu, which is about the same size. Hope they come down for ya JoAnn.

[\nomen]

Lets see; NOK 9,70 pr. liter x 3.79 gives NOK 36.76 per US gallon of regular 95 oct. petrol. With todays exchange rate towards the dollar of USD 1 = NOK 7.17 we end up at $ 5.13.. Yup. That is more than $5 a gallon. No wonder diesel cars have become as popular as they are.. Diesel goes at around 8 per liter, but usually gives allmost twice the miles per gallon.

Most of the prices are tax of course, and we have chosen it ourselves via how we vote. Since this country is the 3rd largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and Russia, the potential for cheap gasoline is there, but not the political will.

[Mac33]

Quite simply ,here in the UK we pay approx.

[SCJwl]

OMG! And we're complaining over here in the US.

Mac and \nomen, that's horrible!!!!

[kanaloa]

HOLY COW!! $5 and $7-$8 a gallon???

Geeeeze... I'd be walking to work/school. Wheeew.

[SCJwl]

Darn sure be carpooling. And my kids would be taking the bus. There's no way I'd be driving them everyday.

[XJan87]

I'm not sure now... But I think 95E costs something like 1.11

[\nomen]

Of course wee walk / ride bicycles instead of driving short distances. That's positive in a way, and in line with the political goals with this policy. Less traffic = less pollution. Also the high prices encourages people to buy fuel efficient cars, which also = less pollution. As you now probably can guess, the bulk of the retail price of gasoline is called "environmental tax"

Personally I don't like this way of forcing people to drive less. To some extent it works in cities, where public transport is good and distances shorter, but not in rural areas, which is where many Norwegians live. We, as do the UK, pump huge amounts of oil out of the North Sea. The bulk of this is exported (as a nation, we are one of the few who profits on high crude-prices; the Kuwait of Scandinavia). Since this oil is a natural resource pumped from public "property" I think it would be fair if we got it for free. But then, we get what we vote for. To bad that the only political party that wants to get rid of the fuel-tax are totally irresponsible populist nutcases on other, more important issues.