Comparing diesel price

Sonix · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:14 am

Hi everyone ...
Here in South Africa, we are complaining about the HEAVY rise in diesel price ... I would just like to make a little comparison, with prices in other countries...
Here's how I worked it out .... I'm a employee, earning a middle class salary in South Africa ...
For a middle class salary in SA, to fill up your Liberty's tank with diesel, costs roughly 2.5%-3% of your monthly salary ...
What is it like in the USA and Europe?
Maybe a better way to compare .... it takes 87.5 McDonald Cheese burgers, or 23.3 Mcdonalds Big MAc meals to fill up my tank with diesel ...

bbo · **Joined:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:17 pm **Posts:** 382

rough estimate

someone earning 50k per year would be in the 1.5-2% range for a fill up

25K per year would be twice that ... lots of people in the 25 range here ... though they most likely can't afford to be driving a newer CRD ...

Average salary was 36K in 2004 .. depending on who you believe for stats.

*note 50% of statistics are made up :)

*edit ... my highest cost fillup in the past month was 73 cheeseburgers ... I had another over 60, but that wasn't an empty tank.

**edit x2 .... you know the double cheeseburger is on the mcd value meal for 1$ ... right ... its basically the puny cheeseburger with another piece of meat.

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:50 am

Sonix wrote:

Hi everyone ...
Maybe a better way to compare .... it takes 87.5 McDonald Cheese burgers to fill up my tank with diesel ...

The normal price for a single cheese burger is $1 here. Diesel is around $4.20 a gallon so a 18 gallon fileup, I think the tank holds 20 gallons, would be about 75 cheesburgers :lol:

That's a lot of Cholesterol here or there :shock:

Joe

Sonix · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:52 am

Now things are becoming more clear .....man ,,,the universal language of McDonalds :roll:

Uffe · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:53 am

I'm a middle class person in Denmark (northern europe for those not familiar with scandinavia

)

For a whole CRD tank (which takes 70 liters, compared with 78 liters for later models) I pay about $126.

Since the dollar is low I am spared from disaster (

) and that is about 3.6% of my monthly salary after tax. I fill her up two times per month doing my daily driving to and from work.

EDIT: 63 cheeseburgers is the price of a fill-up

clackclack · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:49 am

I've been paying ~75 Cheese Burgers for a tank of B5.

I vote for having the Cheese Burger (CB) as a new standard on which all currencies around the world are valued...

Bill.Barg · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:01 am

see

http://www.economist.com/finance/displa ... id=9448015

The big mac index has been used for years to compare purchasing power between nations

Bill

cerich · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:10 am

I spend approx 350 cheeseburgers a month in fuel between three vehicles. I drive 60 miles a day for work and my wife 35 miles a day. It is starting to be quite noticed how many cheesburgers wall street is costing us....

clackclack · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:04 am

Bill.Barg wrote:

see

http://www.economist.com/finance/displa ... id=9448015

The big mac index has been used for years to compare purchasing power between nations

Bill

That is awesome! I added that to my favorites.

And I did think of one huge advantage with the Big Mac index as opposed to the proposed Cheese Burger index...

Vincent Vega: They call it a Royal with Cheese.
Jules Winnfield: Royal with Cheese.
Vincent Vega: That's right.
Jules Winnfield: What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent Vega: Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.

cerich · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:03 pm

clackclack wrote:

Bill.Barg wrote:

see

http://www.economist.com/finance/displa ... id=9448015

The big mac index has been used for years to compare purchasing power between nations

Bill

That is awesome! I added that to my favorites.

And I did think of one huge advantage with the Big Mac index as opposed to the proposed Cheese Burger index...

Vincent Vega: They call it a Royal with Cheese.
Jules Winnfield: Royal with Cheese.
Vincent Vega: That's right.
Jules Winnfield: What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent Vega: Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.

I am talking to a friend in China right now, he says the Big Mac is 22 yuan
not 11
it costs around $3.20 there now

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:49 pm

McMoney

honey_don't · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:46 pm

Has anyone calculated the $/gal. at which it is more cost effective to press the grease out of the cheezburgers and fill the tank with that instead?

Cowpie1 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:00 pm

I cheat on fuel... well not really cheat.

I run a semi and get a fuel surcharge for the miles I run. fuel cost for me, after the fuel surcharge, is about $.80 a gallon. When I get home, I take some of the fuel from my fuel tanks on the semi and use it to fuel my CRD. Perfectly legal and on the up and up.

Not bad having my customers subsidize fuel for my CRD!

dgeist · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:09 pm

Cowpie1 wrote:

I cheat on fuel... well not really cheat.

I run a semi and get a fuel surcharge for the miles I run. fuel cost for me, after the fuel surcharge, is about $.80 a gallon. When I get home, I take some of the fuel from my fuel tanks on the semi and use it to fuel my CRD. Perfectly legal and on the up and up.

Not bad having my customers subsidize fuel for my CRD!

I'm telling your customers.... :wink:

AZScout · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:36 pm

For those of you in Europe, with the falling of the U.S. dollar and oil being priced in dollars, have your gas prices been going down?

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