A less-than-happy destination after a 7.5 year journey.
Two and a half years ago I posted a five year log of prices that our family had paid for gas.
At that point I had spent $3.99 per gallon twice but had never spent more than four.
Since then I have paid $3.95 once, but have never spent more than four.
Until this weekend.
In one week, gas prices (at least in Minnesota) went up 40 cents.
I’m not happy about this, but at least it makes an interesting blog post, right? Here’s the chart.
We live in the Northern Suburbs of the Twin Cities. I’m told that our region is leading the nation in gas prices. Hooray for Minnesota!
Responsible Father 
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May 20, 2013 at 5:10 am
bethyada
Well I’m paying about $2.20 per litre which is $8.30 per gallon. The NZ dollar is about 81 US cents at the moment so that brings it down to about $US6.80 per gallon, so you should still count yourself lucky.
The issue here is taxes, not so much fuel prices.
May 20, 2013 at 9:04 am
jamsco
I’ve heard that taxes are a big deal outside of the US. Do people drive around less because of this? Is that what they’re hoping for?
May 22, 2013 at 5:36 am
bethyada
Don’t think so, perhaps now that might be the claim but the taxes are decades old. Just money generating I suppose. We have sales tax of 15% on everything (including food and services); but fuel, alcohol and tobacco have added taxes. I think the fuel tax may be the oldest? Australia has cheaper fuel, the UK has much greater tax on fuel I believe.
Don’t know how much people drive around compared to other countries. I hear that 20,000 km per year is perhaps an average here?