so we WERE planning a 26 day trip to Poland for Summer 2009.

but we are looking at prices of TODAY. My cousin sent me an email, they are paying 450 zloty (1 zloty = .36 US cents) for a LITER of gasoline!! Ok, initially that doesn't sound like much does it...until you do the math.

There are 3.8 liters in a US gallon.

450 zloty x 3.8 liters = 1,710 zloty for 1 gallon of gasoline. When you consider that most cars (foreign or domestic) have at least a 10 gallon tank, that means each TANK of gasoline costs 17,100 zloty.

When you convert that into US dollars, at today's prices for gasoline...

a LITER of gasoline = $161.60

a GALLON of gasoline = $614.09

a TANK full of gasoline (min 10 gallons) = $6,140.90


Now, considering the fact you will typically use at LEAST 4 tank of gasoline on a normal month trip... we would be facing $25,000 in gasoline.

That does not include the airfare, hotel stays, food or spending.

I think we are going to cancel this idea and just send some $ for airfare to my cousin...she can come here.

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That just made my head hurt more. I don't even want to think about it like that---It's bad enough already

that doesn't quite sound right to me. When we were in Denmark last year, gas ended up being around $9 per gallon USD. Of course the public transportation there was so cheap and efficient, that we would have not used a car too much.

Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Poland cuts gas tax in response to high world oil prices

I think the decimal point was put in the wrong place. Still expensive but not as high as you quoted. Of course take in to account that most cars in Europe get a lot higher gas milage. We were in England last year where gas is very high also. but because the car (which fit 4 comfortably) got 42 miles to the gallon, the cost per mile was not much difference than the 19 miles to the gallon I get here. Also things are a lot closer, so you don't end up driving as many miles as you do here. I drive 15 miles each way to take my kids to school, in Europe that is a day out!!! I grew up England and when I was just there things that I thought were miles away, like a trip to my Grandmothers, was only 30 miles. We used to plan that trip ahead of time, I do that every morning and then again in the afternoon!

Honeymoon was in Ireland/England.

We drove a Nissan Sunny, with no antenna, but a hanger in the back...

I tried to put gas in, went to the cheapest filler... The gas pump was circular, the tanke was square.. couldnt get the gas in.. squirting everywhere..

Guy came over, and said 'What are you doing? That's unleaded gas. You have a leaded car.'

12+ yrs ago, it was around $4.00/gallon, with xchange rate.

Jason

The per litre price in Poland right now is 4.23 Zlotych.

I think your cousin meant 4.5 not not 450. Still expensive but not outrageous like you thought.

she didn't have any decimal points her email says "benzene 450 zl litre"

gasoline 450 zloty per liter.

that's pretty scary to think about though. I will have to email her and ask her to clarify it a bit more. (LOL grrr)

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Lorie,

Go look here. It gives all the prices for gas

AA Roadwatch : European Petrol Prices

thats why my friends who lives in england say they use the public transportation all the time. cost them like 5.00 to go to work and back a week. wish we have that kind of transportation here. but wouldnt work for me with my job. but still would be nice to catch the bus to town and back and not have to drive, hunt a place to park and pay a arm for the gas to get there.

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ok, thanks.

so roughly $6.15 a gallon x 10 gallons on a tank (conservative) = $61.50 a tank x 4 = $250 (roughly) for vacation.

The cost of the car however was all in Euros... which 1 Euro converts to $1.33 American, and the cost of the car that we could "fit" in was 623 Euro for 17 days (36.6 Euros a day) = $845.

Who knows what the costs will be 2 years from now though...but obviously you can't wait until right before you leave to start planning it all out.

Even at $6.14 for a gallon of gasoline...it's a little short of double what Michiganders are paying for gasoline ($3.66 gallon)

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We lived in Italy in 2005-2006 and gas was about $5.00/gallon US. I used to laugh when I would read the posts on various boards about the prices here in the states, about $2.50-$2.80 at that time. We bought a Hybrid when we found out we were getting transferred there.

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