I'm curious... what are gas prices right now in Europe?
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I'm curious... what are gas prices right now in Europe?
Now that gas prices have dropped so dramatically in the US, have they come down in Europe as well? We'll be in France and Italy for the next 2 weeks. What are the current prices?
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Here's a website that compiles average prices every two weeks.
http://www.iru.org/Services/Fuel/Welcome.E.html
As it is in the States, in general, prices are less off the main highways. Yesterday there was an 8 cent/liter difference between an Autobahn station and a atation a kilometer off the highway. That's about a 30 eurocent difference per gallon!
http://www.iru.org/Services/Fuel/Welcome.E.html
As it is in the States, in general, prices are less off the main highways. Yesterday there was an 8 cent/liter difference between an Autobahn station and a atation a kilometer off the highway. That's about a 30 eurocent difference per gallon!
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"on sundays, supermarket gas pumps are not manned"
Eh?
On Sundays round here you can't get to most supermarket petrol pumps for the queues.
Mind you, we haven't seen "manned" petrol pumps since about 1900.
Eh?
On Sundays round here you can't get to most supermarket petrol pumps for the queues.
Mind you, we haven't seen "manned" petrol pumps since about 1900.
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Flanneruk's remak makes me think i was not clear (not native english speaker here) i meant "completely unmanned" : 99% of the french pumps are automatic but in most cases you can PAY at a manned booth (but the super/hypermarkets pumps work with a chip/pin system when there is no employee present)
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the underlying assumption of this question is that prices in europe dramatically increased as they did in the US. generally, tax is the reason for high petrol prices in europe. tax is a constant and the variable part of the price accounts for a much smaller portion of the price as compared to the US. prices did increase somewhat in europe but the average user hardly noticed - increases were about 5-10% maybe 15% over about 3 years ago (depends on the country). i believe that america experienced about 75% to 100% increase over the last few years?
to answer your question, no they really have not peeled back much (if at all) from the relatively modest increases of the last couple years.
to answer your question, no they really have not peeled back much (if at all) from the relatively modest increases of the last couple years.