{"id":245,"date":"2010-10-05T03:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-10-05T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:49:42","slug":"gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure why I find this interesting, but here’s a breakdown of how expensive gas\/diesel is here.<\/p>\n

Current Diesel Price: 1.124
\nCurrent Gas Price: 1.184<\/p>\n

There are more diesels here, so that’s the most common fuel. Now, those are in Euros. The current conversion rate<\/a> is 1.3702 dollars per Euro, so factoring that in, we get these current prices in dollars:<\/p>\n

Diesel in Dollars: 1.540
\nGas in Dollars: 1.622<\/p>\n

Doesn’t seem so bad, huh? Well, those are for a liter, not a gallon. A gallon is 3.785 liters<\/a>. Getting that factored in:<\/p>\n

Diesel per Gallon in Dollars: 5.83
\nGas per Gallon in Dollars: 6.14<\/p>\n

$3 per gallon doesn’t seem so bad, huh? The high cost is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the average fuel efficiency is much higher<\/a> in Europe. A mid-size car here gets 47MPG highway and 36MPG city. A mid-size car in the US gets 27 highway and 21 city. SUVs (which don’t exist here, by the way) get more like 16MPG highway and 13MPG city, on average.<\/p>\n

There’s your random information for the day. I’m sure there are at least 15 studies presenting different information. That’s the worst part about complex subjects, no one really has the faintest idea what’s going on, so it’s hard to get good data, so it’s super hard to draw conclusions. That’s not even thinking about complete<\/em> data! Oy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure why I find this interesting, but here’s a breakdown of how expensive gas\/diesel is here. Current Diesel Price: 1.124 Current Gas Price: 1.184 There are more diesels here, so that’s the most common fuel. Now, those are in Euros. The current conversion rate is 1.3702 dollars per Euro, so factoring that in, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}