Gas Prices

  • Fuel price in London, shown in pence per liter, February 2011

    Turmoil in Libya is making global oil markets nervous. That means higher gasoline prices. Cue the creeping unease and outright fear that Our American Way Of Life May Be In Peril. Well, it's Monday morning, and we have a brisk message for our U.S. readers: Shut up and stop whining. So gas is over $3 a gallon, maybe even edging close to $4 (depending where you live)? Oh, you poor, delicate, oppressed things! Your brethren in England--you know, that country we revolted against 235 years ago?--are just about to pay $8 for each gallon of gasoline they buy. The signs in the photos were snapped...

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    Who's Your Gas Buddy? 16 Cars With 40-MPG Gas Mileage On Sale Now

    Gas prices got you all nervous? Figuring the days of cheap gas are over? Thinking about a new car with much better gas mileage? Well, just because the EPA rates a specific car at the magic 40-mpg mark doesn't mean you'll actually get 40 mpg. But the ratings are a good indicator of where cars stand...

  • John Hofmeister, ex-president of Shell Oil, June 2010 (miscaptioned as 'Jeff')
    What Would You Do Differently If Gas Hit $5 A Gallon In 2012?

    This video clip, now six months old, has been making the rounds yesterday and today. Still, it's worth pondering. What would you do if gasoline rose to $5 a gallon in two years? How would your driving, and car buying, behavior change? Two days after the BP drilling rig blowout in the Gulf of...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    “Unlimited Juice” Electric Vehicle Charging Plans: Good Idea or Exploitation?

    We often get asked by readers just how much it will cost to run an EV. And while we’re able to say that an EV costs less to run once purchased than a gasoline car we’ve had to guess refer them to their local utility company for exact pricing. So what if you could enter into a monthly...

  • Tony Earley, CEO of DTE Corp.
    All the Gasoline You Could Use, for $40 A Month? In Detroit?

    Business of Plugging In 2010 conference, Detroit -- Some executives always hit the talking points, while others clearly relish their topic and aren't afraid to add some opinion to their presentations. Tony Earley, CEO of DTE Corp., the parent company of Detroit Edison, is the rare public utility...

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    Gas Prices: You Could Pay $10 A Gallon. Or Just 6 Cents. Why?

    What did you pay for gasoline the last time you filled up? If you're in the U.S., probably about $2.70 per gallon. But you may wish you were in Caracas, Venezuela, where enormous government subsidies cut the price to a ridiculous 6 cents per gallon. Yep, six pennies. And you may thank your stars...

  • Gasoline consumption per capita by state, from Infrastructurist

    We read a lot of stuff here to cover the world of green cars. No surprise there. But there's a lot we see that doesn't lend itself to a full article, though we hate to let it pass by altogether. So this is a new type of piece, one that brings together stuff that's sort-of-relevant to green cars, driving, energy politics, urban design, transportation policy, you name it. The only criterion for inclusion: We thought it was interesting. Cul-de-sacs, those exalted dead-end streets of suburban utopia, make you drive more and walk and bike less, which means higher fuel use, more tailpipe emissions...

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    Gasoline Costs More in California; Here's Why

    You know that old saying about the pioneers being the ones with the arrows in their backs? Tell that to California drivers, who pay the highest prices for gasoline in the nation outside of Hawaii (which has to ship all its gasoline to the islands in tankers). The problem has grown particularly bad...

  • 2010 Toyota Prius vs 2009 Toyota Prius drag race
    Most Popular Posts for September: Prius Drag Races, Who Knew?

    We're back on schedule with our favorite end-of-month activity, logging the most popular posts of the last month-or-so on AllAboutPrius.com. Autumn is here (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), and we've got a fresh crop of favorites. We only held over two of August's most popular posts...

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    Surprise: Heavier, More Powerful Cars Get Worse Gas Mileage

    Here at GreenCarReports.com, we read a lot. And increasingly, our friends send us stuff they think we'd be interested in. Which is how we came across an abstract of a study done by one Christopher R. Knittel at the University of California-Davis. Knittel looked at the factors affecting carmakers'...

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