The price of petrol / gas

Right now in Montreal gas is about 1.40CAD per litre.

Petrol seems to be about 1.65€/l, diesel 1.55$/l

If you're going to use gallons, remember there is a difference between the UK (Imperial gallon) and the American one. The big imperial gallon is 4.54609 litres. The smaller US gallon is only 3.78541 litres. The Imperial pints and quarts are also larger than the US ones by the same ratio: the Imperial ones are about 20% larger.

In the UK, as in most of Europe, we now buy our petrol (gas) in litres. We also buy milk, orange juice and so on in litres - about the only thing that comes as pints now are beers served in pubs.

Americans are always whinging about petrol prices. I wonder if most of them have any idea how much the rest of the world pays

Yes we do. But you know, other people 'have' to drive too.

*nods*

It's approaching $4/gal here, which is pretty pricey for the US.

I think a lot depends on how good a place's public transport is. here in the UK it's reasonable, nationwide, but lousy locally sometimes .. getting a bus to my parents' house for instance is virtually impossible (I don't even want to work out how much I've spent on taxis there and back this week )