daedong said:
Yesterday I paid ($1.40au a litre) $3.97, caculated in US dollars and gallons
Vin, just curious here. Help me out.
I know in England and Europe the major cities relatively compact and are close together, mass transit is very common, and small cars and short drives are very common.
In the US, major cities are sprawling places and often hundreds of miles apart, only a few of them have more than basic mass transit, cars outside of the city centers are often large and distances to commute to work are often fairly long, distances of 20 to 40 miles each way to work & home are common for suburban and rural dwellers.
You are paying more for gas than we are, by what seems like about US$1 per gallon right now. Australia strikes me as being rather scattered with long distances more like the US than Europe in terms of the way the urban centers are spread about. But are my impressions close to accurate? And what about mass transit, the need for cars in the cities, etc?
I guess I'm asking, since you are paying 25% more for gas than we are, what are the typical driving habits, distances, etc?