I noticed our gas prices are about $2.34 a gallon right now for regular unleaded gas I use in my Soul. Gas always goes up when we head into summer months but that doesn't really bother me because I don't have to fill my tank very often.
I only get gas every 3 weeks but it was in the $3.50-ish range I think when I last got it. California always being higher than the nation.
Chepest supermarket basic unleaded is £1.22 per litre here at the moment... which is what I put in my car.. Hubs uses premium unleaded and some garages are selling it at £1.40 per litre, although he pays around £1.29 at the supermarket pumps nearest his work..
You guys don't know when you've got a good thing going... less than 4 dollars for a Gallon... . That said..this is a small Island with millions of cars on our roads, so it's probably a good thing that the high cost of our fuel prevents millions more being on the roads, because we'd end up with no-one going anywhere
We have 350 miles between our only two major cities, and 3/4 of the state cannot be reached by automobile.
I know the high cost of fuel in Europe is often mentioned. But I believe your mass transport is much better than here in the USA. I wonder if this has something to do with it. They really do want use chained to our cars here.
Do you ride on the back of a reindeer, Don?... Seriously though... how do you get between cities.. Boat?
True about public or mass transport...unless you live in a major city you can forgot about even bus service in the suburbs.
Yes, @Chrissy Cross The U. S. has never really worked on better mass transit. I would be without a car in full retirement and I'm considering what I will do when that time comes. Not really sure at this point.
We don't really have real cities, Holly. Anchorage is about 275,000 and it is by far the largest. Fairbanks is next-350 miles north--and it is about 55,000. Juneau, the state capital is not on the road system--plane or boat only--at about 20,000. Everything else is MUCH smaller, although there are boroughs--Mat-Su, Kenai, and Fairbanks-Northstar that have populated areas. The entire state is 2 1/2 times the size of Texas with only about 750,000 people, so most of the land is empty. The majority of travel is by air, either commercial or by small plane. Most of the tourists that "see" Alaska visit the Southeast Panhandle by cruise ship, although the state does run a large ferry system. Supplies are delivered to the rural areas by ship or barge when there is no ice, and flown in during the winter. We did have sled dogs when we had 6 children at home, and travel by dogsled is fun, but I have never ridden a reindeer. We do have them here, though, and they are nearly the same as our native caribou.
We only have eight that are classified as cities and Portland, the largest, is under 67,000. The next largest, Lewiston, is only 36,000.