The Magnum schrieb:

While you guys in the USA are thinking about petrol soon to be $6 a gall=
on
have a thought for us poor brits..
I just paid =A31 a litre today. Taking into account theres nigh on 4.5 l=
itres
in a gallon..

4.50 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds =3D 8.28851 USD
United States Dollars
1 GBP =3D 1.84189 USD 1 USD =3D 0.542920 GBP

That makes our fuel at $8.29 now... not in the future (

Bet that makes you feel better...lol

Ok, lets go.

'Normal' fuel with 91 oktane is about 1,43 EURO per litre in Germany.
This is 5.43 EUR per US-gallon (3.8 litres)
Currency chart is 0.7985 US$for 1 Euro.
So we have to pay 6.80US$/ gallon.

Diesel is about 1.18Euro/ litre

But.... about 70% of it is TAXES & VAT.

I drive a 1993 VW-T4 model with 2.4ltr diesel engine and I feed it with=20
rape-oil for 0.68 EUR per ltr wich is 3.24 US$ per US-gallon and gives a =

rather cheap milage per Euro for european circumstances.....

And to become on topic: I have a CB-radio in my car... :-)
http://fweb10.ok-webhost06.de/forum/...tid=3D34&thum=
bnail=3D1

and a little antenna mounted on a trailer:
http://fweb10.ok-webhost06.de/forum/...achmentid=3D10