Has anybody ever stopped to give a thought to how much money has been poured into their Jaguar at the petrol pump?
My car has done almost 110,000 miles so at an average of 25 mpg, for ease of sums, that's about 4,400 gallons of petrol.
If we say that we bought that petrol at an average price, over the 15 years, of £4.50 per gallon, that equates to nearly £20,000.
Ouchie.

 

I don't want to think. If I think I may cry. If I think about how much I've spent on gas in the past 6 months I may cry. Of course, it's such an AMAZING feeling when you engage the kick-down, and it revs to red line and you watch the average mpg's fall.

 

Meh....5tevie....you are flirting with a mental exercise that probably ought not be entertained. When I first graduated university and took a job in design engineering.....automotive lift company......I believe it was within the first two weeks I sat in the engineering manager's office and we worked out...on his whiteboard...the amount of time the average man spends on the crapper during an average lifespan....

I'm just sayin'......sometimes it's best to not sum the installments....

 

Thats certainly a scary figure
At least we dont drive tanks which do 4 galleons to the mile

 

If we say that we bought that petrol at an average price, over the 15 years, of £4.50 per gallon, that equates to nearly £20,000.

Don't be so selfish 5tevie. Think about how much the tax element of that amount has helped the UK economy and in particular enabled many people on 'incapacity' benefit to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle.
Well done to you I say!

 

Stevie, £20,000 is wrong petrol wasnt £4.50 per gal for the full 15yrs


aholbro - what was the answer

 

Stevie, £20,000 is wrong petrol wasnt £4.50 per gal for the full 15yrs

You're correct of course, but he may have a case for saying that it is the equivalent of that amount in today's money!
And if we're being picky why no apostrophe in wasn't?

Over to you 5teve.

 

I wasn't being picky, just pointing out petrol hasn't always been £4.50 a galleon so £20k didnt represent the true figue

 

I thought a galleon was a type of ship. If so, £4.50 is a pretty good price.

 

Lol.....I don't remember .....had actually forgotten the entire exercise until 5tevie jogged it loose! I wanna say it was on the order of 10 years or so.....although it was a remarkable number, I guess you could say I flushed the data....

 

I'll (note the apostrophe) give in to the fact that a lot of tax dollars (as we say in the U.S.) are in the price of gasoline but, I did see on the evening news that Exxon was listed to have shown a 152% increase in profits by Fortune 500 this reporting so it's not just the world's governments who are taking some pretty heavy coinage out of our pockets!

The U.S. used to have a cap on gasoline prices before we had George W. Bush in the presidency which he promptly removed (hmm... do you think his family being in the oil business played any roll in the thought process) ending with gasoline being $1.47 per gallon U.S. when he took office and about $3.80 per gallon U.S. when he left office and todays average is $4.08 per gallon U.S. (just saying)

 

poor boy-
I don't care about your politics, but I think you need to check facts. There MIGHT have been temporary caps WAY BACK in Nixon's era, and there were natural gas price caps from Nixon's era thru Carter's BUT there have been no US federal gasoline caps in 20 years, and neither of the presidents Bush had anything to do with lifting them.
Stick to Jaguars if you don't know history.

 

£20000 is chicken feed. When I bought the car it had depreciated more than two and a half times that!

 

Jeeze Sparkezap, my apologies. Didn't mean to pee in your political Cheerios. When and if I can reverify I will repost. By the way I voted for Nixon twice and had he run again I would have voted for him again. At the risk of further riling somebody up, does anyone know who first brought NAFTA (on track with Jags being an import) to the light of day? This should test some history trivia. BTW, 20 years places the time frame at 1991, hmmm.... let's see, who was President in 1991?

 

I think your naivety is showing. NAFTA replaced the FTA which in turn replaced the Auto Pact. The latter goes back to 1965 when Lester B. Pearson was Prime Minister.

Caps on gas prices have not existed in the US since 1979.

 

Poor Boy:
Actually you did not pee in my political Cheerios. And why brag about voting for Nixon? In the vein you posted, I believe both of the Bushies supported sweethaeart tax deals to their oil industry friends. And to other friend's businesses (Can you say enron or Hallibutrton?). However, facts are important. If you are going to make political statements on a car forum, at least get the basic facts right.

 

It may also be the case that my car did 10,000 in the first 14 years of its life and then did 100,000 in the last 2 years, in which case an average of £4.50 per gallon is far to low.